On 17/01/2010 16:12, Ben Armstrong wrote: > I am upstream for a ruby app I am in the process of designing/writing. > The app is intended as a piece of Debian infrastructure, so writing it > to be easily packaged is an important concern. I explained a little > bit about what I'm doing here (probably not, now that I think of it, > the right list for this, which may explain why it got no responses): > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/2010-January/004436.html > > Today's problem is this: the application will provide static data in a > 'data' directory. On a Debian system, I believe it should be installed > somewhere under /usr, but I am not sure where. > > I asked #ruby @ irc.freenode.net and mostly got blank stares. They > said that the normal approach here is to use rubygems, and suggested I > look at other gems to find out what they do. Well, my problem with > that advice is that of all of the gems I have ever installed, only snmp > both provides data and is in Debian (the libsnmp-ruby1.8 package), and > I don't trust that as a good example to follow. In snmp/mib.rb, the > upstream package looks in two locations, one relative to the code (for > the all-in-one-dir approach, e.g. either a gem, or running the code > in-place, checked out from revision control) and the other relative to > rbconfig's Config::CONFIG["datadir"], which on a Debian system > is /usr/share. However, for the latter, it expects the data to be > in ./ruby/snmp/mibs, and since there is no precedent in Debian for > putting data under /usr/share/ruby, the maintainer has replaced > the all-in-one-dir location with a > hard-wired /usr/share/doc/libsnmp-ruby1.8/yaml/. This also seems > wrong to me, as the files provided are not really documentation. > > So where do I go from here? There should be some standard way for a > package to either work in an all-in-one-dir arrangement *or* with data > stored relative to Config::CONFIG["datadir"] but I can't find a single > example of code that does this in a way that would mesh well with > Debian. > > Ben >
Hi, you could have a look at redmine package (a RoR app), which deals with defining proper paths for these cases : static data, www-dir in /usr/share/redmine(/public) cached data in /var/cache/redmine uploaded data in /var/lib/redmine(/files) configuration yml in /etc/redmine logs in /var/log/redmine Regards, Jérémy Lal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
