packaging suggestions.

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 15 février 2006 à 08:54 +1300, Michael J Knox a écrit :
> I am attempting to package bro (bro-ids.org) and have a couple of
> questions. 
> 
> When bro is installed it installs its self into /usr, which is fine, but
> it also creates a bunch of directories like:
> 
> /usr/archive
> /usr/logs
> /usr/policy
> /usr/reports
> /usr/scripts
> /usr/site
> /usr/var
> /usr/etc
> 
> Now I am using the "%configure" macro. 
> 
> Are the any issues, reservations, conflicts of packaging policies that
> the above will create? 

You need to massage it so logs en up in /var/log, conf in /etc,
generated bits in /var/something and so on. Time to read
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ again.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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