[Freeipa-devel] Moving from /usr/share/

[Rob Crittenden]

Rich Megginson wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> I'm working on a specfile so we can submit IPA to be included in Fedora.
>>
>> Fedora follows the FHS, we do not (my fault, mostly).
>>
>> We install a slew of stuff into /usr/share/ipaserver. /usr/share is 
>> really for architecture-independent stuff. We should probably be using 
>> /usr/lib/ipaserver instead.
>>
>> Any objections to switching?
> What will you use /usr/lib/ipaserver for?

We have python libraries there, some of which we might be able to coerce 
into /usr/lib/python*/site-packages, but not all. A few of them are the 
XML-RPC interface used by Apache.

>> We also have some static web content. That is currently in our 
>> ipaserver directory. I wonder if we should put that elsewhere as well, 
>> perhaps making an ipa directory in /var/www/html?
> No, you are not supposed to use /var/www/html - see 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-5d1681fa7cf3714ad490fbf7c095a0cfe16da27f 

Ok, guess I should have read the entire FHS. I guess that content stays 
in /usr/share.

rob

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