--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:35:07 -0700 From: Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FHS pre-2.1 draft #1 on web site
FYI - I just made a pre-release of FHS 2.1 on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. If you have any comments, please direct them to the FHS mailing list or directly to me (and not this list).
------- start of cut text -------------- FHS 2.1 will be a much needed update. The reason is not so much for the ideas being discussed on the FHS mailing list recently, but for fixing some basic problems with FHS 2.0. These are problems that developers from various distributions (Caldera, Debian, Red Hat, and SuSE) have requested that FHS 2.1 fix.
The major changes are as follows:
/var/state is back at /var/lib, but using the /var/state specification. Moving the directory was unnecessary and was a stopping point for distributions. Tweaking the specification a little was okay, but moving it was evidently not.
/var/mail is back at /var/spool/mail. Various solutions, such as allowing either with symbolic links have been discussed ad-nauseum on both the FHS and LSB mailing lists. Since nobody (that I'm aware of) has actually used /var/mail in a distribution or application, the best fix is to switch back. Locally, people can use whatever symbolic links they want, as always. Applications and distributions need to reference /var/spool/mail (as they do in reality).
A number of editorial changes from Bernd Warken have also been integrated into the draft. I hope I got them all right. Thanks, Bernd.
I'm hoping to make at least one or two more fixes prior to FHS 2.1 being released, but they will be the subject of another posting.
My plan is that FHS 2.2 will be significantly rewritten. Some parts of the specification are lost causes and should be totally redone. For example, instead of saying: these binaries go into /bin and these other ones go into /usr/bin. We should really say that some small number (like /bin/sh) are fixed in certain locations and the rest may either appear in /bin or /usr/bin (probably using the PATH mechanism to access them).
Get it at:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/fhs-2.1-pre-01.tar.gz
Dan ------- end ----------------------------
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