> > I meant that untarring them under /usr/doc creates that problem. I meant > that because I was thinking that /usr/doc is the _right_ place for that > files, as plain files, maybe gzipped, not tarred. > And if /usr/doc is the right place to put the files, then why should be > untarred in another place? (apart root and ro fs ...) > I say: maintainer, put the files in the right place, without tarballs. > Ah, now I see your problem.
But usually, the right place never is /usr/doc, as usually nothing in /usr/doc gets used by the system (it's only there for the admin). But for example in nfsroot, I've got an example of how to setup a printerserver. This pringerserver needs some ten files to setup (samba etc). These files all need to go into /etc, of cource. Now, the problem with me putting all those files in /etc is that: - they need to go into /etc/nfsroot/$IPNUMBER/ and I don't know the $IPNUMBER of the clients the user is going to create. - I assume most people don't want to make printerservers. If I were to put those files in, say, /etc/nfsroot/default, then every client will by default have that setup. This is not ideal. So, I have to put those files in /usr/doc/examples. Of cource you can still argue that I should have untarred the .tar.gz in /usr/doc/nfsroot/examples myself (in the debian/rules binary). I argue that this will only create more subdirs, more mess. and I would like to be allowed to give the user a .tar.gz file. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/