Re: Comments on FHS testsuite run
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Mike Markley wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:14:37PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> spake forth:
> > > bug in the test suite. /usr/local/src is part of base2_2.tgz
> >
> > Well, it's definitely not present on my woody systems so I suggest
> > the base-files postinst creates it if it's not present.
>
> Then something's wrong; the brand-spanking-new chroot environment I setup
> today from base2_2.tgz and apt-get install build-essential contains it.
> madhack@gunner:/usr/local/share/base$ tar tzf base2_2.tgz | grep src
> ./usr/src/
> ./usr/local/src/
That's on new installs. However, some people upgrade there system over time,
and don't bother with the pain and turmoil of a reinstall every month. So,
base-files needs to create those dirs if they don't exist, for these maniac
people who insist on upgrading.
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