[Fedora-packaging] Re: one more draft

[Ville Skyttä]

On Monday 24 March 2008, Axel Thimm wrote:

> Whatever the hardwired defaults at compile time
> the /etc/sysconfig/vdr takes precedence. So the package's scripts can
> easily autoadjust to whatever situation.

Good to hear you know better; I expect to see code to back that up if the 
draft passes with a mandate to change the dirs :)

> But that would be wrong. One of the main FHS aspects is that a package [...]

We already do some things "wrong" wrt the FHS, for example /etc/rc.d/init.d 
and /usr/libexec.  I'm not aware of much movement in getting those fixed 
although unlike /srv, they don't deal directly with user data and could 
conceivably be easier and safer to fix.  (Right, this is not a reason to 
allow more wrongdoings, but they're in the same boat of kinda "this is how 
things have been traditionally done, and we don't think it's worth the 
trouble to change these particular cases".)

> Just to reiterate: The /srv/vdr folder currently breaks all
> /srv/<domain> setups.

Sure, if you happen to have a <domain> dir called vdr there for some other 
purpose.  Similar things could be said about /var/lib/vdr or /var/spool/vdr.