On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:36:25PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm packaging a command line app called hoogle that can also run as > a CGI (depending on whether QUERY_STRING or REQUEST_URI is defined). > The source package generates three binary packages: > > hoogle - the binary > hoogle-data - architecture independant data > hoogle-cgi - creates a symlink from /usr/lib/cgi-bin to the binary > in /usr/bin/ > > The issue I'm having is that the CGI also has some resources (an > XML file, a javascript file and some PNGs) that need to be put > somewhere appropriate so the web server can serve them in response > to a standard HTTP GET. > > I would put this somewhere under /var/www but the policy manual > says thats a bad idea: > > http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft/html/ch-issues.html > > Where should I put these resources?
Look at some other packages; I believe the convention is to use /usr/share/<appname>. In your case, if there is already stuff in /usr/share/hoogle/ for the hoogle-data package, you might pick /usr/share/hoogle/www/ or www-data/ or something like that for the CGI script's resources. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@space.bg r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 "yields falsehood, when appended to its quotation." yields falsehood, when appended to its quotation.
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