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

[Rob Crittenden]

Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 17:18 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> A lot of that code I don't think we want to expose as a python library -
> it's not ready to be used that way. It's really the guts of
> applications.
> 
> Are you certain that /usr/share is not appropriate? I thought that .pyc
> files were portable, so all of that is arch-independent. Additionally,
> other python apps store their code there.
> 

Well rpmlint didn't like them there, though now I suspect it was more 
the #!/usr/bin/python -E that many of the files had that was the real 
problem.

I really think it is cleaner to limit the number of files in 
/usr/share/ipa/ipaserver. Putting the installation stuff there always 
confused me.

It also lets us move away from the sys.path.append("/usr/share/ipa") stuff.

I'm easy though. I've got the .spec files down to warning just about 
missing documentation. I think that I can probably move the stuff I put 
into /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/ipaserver back into 
/usr/share/ipa/ipaserver with little problem.

I hope to have a patch out by COB if you want to wait to see what I've 
done. I'm testing an 'make local-dist' rpm install on a vanilla box 
right now and so far so good.

rob
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3245 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/attachments/20080117/2d511b9d/attachment.bin>