On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:13:36PM -0400, David Mandelberg wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:53 +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > For invidual files > > this is too much work though - it could work for directories. > Why would it be hard with individual files? Just use a shell fragment > like:
> FILES="foo bar baz" > for i in $FILES > do > mv "$DESTDIR/usr/lib/$i" "$DESTDIR/usr/share/$i" > ln -s "/usr/share/$i" "$DESTDIR/usr/lib/$i" > done Moving the files doesn't actually satisfy the FHS requirement, which says that the canonical FHS paths are the ones that must be used *by the software* when referring to these files. If you have to symlink the files back to the non-FHS locations for compatibility with the package itself, I don't really see the point. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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