Re: where do NEW packages go?
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> * We have a symlink from /usr to ., and would like to see X to be installed
> in /, too (either by applying a similar symlink /X11R6 or by just setting
> the prefix). This is actually technically necessary, because our linker is
> ELF and ELF only, and only looks in /lib for libraries. Other work
> arounds would be setting rpath (policy conflict) or, when it is available
> runpath. The /usr symlink messes up fewer things than you would think.
> One thing it messes up is dpkg-shlibdeps, but we are actually working on a
> fix now.
This fix is really about modifying dpkg -S, to not be confused by arbitrary
symlinks. So, if someone were to look for dpkg -S /mnt/md0/X11R6/bin/xdm,
then dpkg -S would return proper results.
Ie, this fix would help everyone, and by extension, hurd.
> * The Hurd likes it a bit differently and more GNUish than GNU/Linux.
> For example, we have another top level directory /hurd that is not
> accounted for by the FHS, and we want to use /libexec at least for
> the Hurd itself. That is not much of a huge technical issue, more like
> a policy conflict. Will be taken up at the appropriate level (hopefully
> FHS).
TBH, the FHS should allow for port-specific extension, if required. If this
were true, then having /hurd and /libexec, that contains files just concerned
with that port, would not cause the rest of the system to be confusing.
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