Re: Comments on FHS testsuite run

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Adam Heath wrote:

> 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.

This would mean that people who want /usr/local to be empty (they are
in their right) would have to remove its contents every time they
upgrade. This is the reason base-files don't do that.