Re: /usr/local

[Alan Post <alan.post@usa.net>]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:02:16PM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> On my debian box, /usr/local was a symbolic link to /local, so boxes NFS
> mounting /usr on my box could provide their own files for
> /usr/local/whatever
> 
> Unfortunately, some package I upgraded today messed around with my symlink,
> deleting it and then creating an empty /usr/local tree. I can't figure out
> which package is responsible to file a bug.
> 
> Here's the output of find in /usr/local - hope it offers some hints. 
> 
> .
> ./share
> ./bin
> ./man
> ./lib
> ./lib/ghostscript
> ./lib/ghostscript/common
> ./lib/ghostscript/5.10
> ./lib/ghostscript/fonts
> ./include
> ./sbin
> ./src
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian Ristuccia
> brianr@debian.org

hmm...  looking at the gs package, it seems to have a slight disagreement with
policy:

dpgk -L gs

[...]
/usr/local
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/common
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/5.10
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts
[...]


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