Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
Luca Boccassi wrote: > I'll start the work to move the file-hierarchy manpage to the uapi-group > website. This is now published at https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/linux_file_system_hierarchy/ and has also been polished to make it more generic -- ___

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Luca Boccassi
Another example of a spec that was added to the uapi group recently and that is extremely unrelated to systemd: https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/file_hierarchy_for_the_verification_of_os_artifacts/ -- ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fe

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Luca Boccassi
Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@redhat.com wrote: > > Thanks for this. I agree this is a good solution, and that uapi group > > is clearly the right place for the successor to FHS. > > Hardly. The reason that the FHS evolution has been slow is because

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Barry Scott
> On 7 Aug 2025, at 11:58, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 10:34:55AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: >> >> >>> On 7 Aug 2025, at 10:23, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek >>> wrote: >>> >>> What I'm try to convey is that the way that we put together Linux systems >>>

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > Thanks for this. I agree this is a good solution, and that uapi group > is clearly the right place for the successor to FHS. > Hardly. The reason that the FHS evolution has been slow is because the FHS project just moved from the Linux

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Thanks for this. I agree this is a good solution, and that uapi group is clearly the right place for the successor to FHS. Tangent: it might be time for the standard to mention libexecdir. Omitting this was originally a good choice because it used to be specific to Fedora/RHEL ecosystem, and

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 10:58:25AM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 10:34:55AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > > > > On 7 Aug 2025, at 10:23, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > > wrote: > > > > > > What I'm try to convey is that the way that we put together Li

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 10:34:55AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > On 7 Aug 2025, at 10:23, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > What I'm try to convey is that the way that we put together Linux systems > > is evolving, slowly but continuously, and we need documents that describe >

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Pavol Sloboda
> What I'm try to convey is that the way that we put together Linux systems > is evolving, slowly but continuously, and we need documents that describe > this evolution. A "standard" that tries to turn back time and slow down > this process is not useful. I agree with this logic, yet what we have

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Barry Scott
> On 7 Aug 2025, at 10:23, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > What I'm try to convey is that the way that we put together Linux systems > is evolving, slowly but continuously, and we need documents that describe > this evolution. A "standard" that tries to turn back time and slow down >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 04:10:36PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 8/5/25 1:01 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > FHS, even version 3, has mostly missed the evolution of Linux systems > > that has happened in the last few decades. In particular, it > > completely missed the u

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 05:59:45AM -0700, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM Pavol Sloboda wrote: > > > > > But it's already done? It's right there. > > > > Well as my email mentions it is done for FHS 2.3 (and not even that really > > cause the version of the Standard is not ment

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 8/5/25 1:01 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: FHS, even version 3, has mostly missed the evolution of Linux systems that has happened in the last few decades. In particular, it completely missed the usr-merge, and obviously the merge of bin and sbin… Just looking at the contents table, it

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-06 Thread Alex Alex
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Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-06 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM Pavol Sloboda wrote: > > > But it's already done? It's right there. > > Well as my email mentions it is done for FHS 2.3 (and not even that really > cause the version of the Standard is not mentioned anywhere). > And what I am trying to ask about is either switching

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-06 Thread Pavol Sloboda
> But it's already done? It's right there. Well as my email mentions it is done for FHS 2.3 (and not even that really cause the version of the Standard is not mentioned anywhere). And what I am trying to ask about is either switching to a newer and more up to date Standard or having a concrete men

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, Aug 6 2025 at 08:52:19 AM +02:00:00, Pavol Sloboda wrote: > Instead of adjusting to this text which is mostly of historical > interest, we should just use > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/file-hierarchy.html. I agree that we should use something that reflects

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-05 Thread Pavol Sloboda
> FHS, even version 3, has mostly missed the evolution of Linux systems > that has happened in the last few decades. In particular, it > completely missed the usr-merge, and obviously the merge of bin and > sbin… Just looking at the contents table, it is full of outdated > stuff, it talks about /mn

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-05 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 03:18:45PM +0200, Michal Schorm wrote: > The FSH standard 3.0 was introduced in 2015. > The changes in FSH 3.0 seem to me as a natural evolution, and > clarification of existing practices after the 2.3 version. > > I believe we should officially adopt the 3.0 version and up

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM Michal Schorm wrote: > > The FSH standard 3.0 was introduced in 2015. > The changes in FSH 3.0 seem to me as a natural evolution, and > clarification of existing practices after the 2.3 version. > > I believe we should officially adopt the 3.0 version and update the

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-05 Thread Michal Schorm
The FSH standard 3.0 was introduced in 2015. The changes in FSH 3.0 seem to me as a natural evolution, and clarification of existing practices after the 2.3 version. I believe we should officially adopt the 3.0 version and update the Fedora Packaging Guidelines text accordingly. Drop the obsolete

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

2025-08-05 Thread Pavol Sloboda
Hello, I have just been going over the Filesystem Layout section[0] of the packaging guidelines and I have noticed we are linking the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard[1] as a whole and not a general version of it. At the moment there are two versions mentioned on the linked website. These being v2.3