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Re: /media for sarge?



On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:32:31 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> said: 

> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Timothy Demulder wrote:

>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:37:28 +0100
>> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Does nobody read changelogs any more? :-)
>> >
>> > base-files (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
>> >
>> > * Added /srv, /media and /usr/local/share/man (Closes: #230909).
>> >   [...]
>>
>> base-files 3.0.14 in sid, but I can't find /media,/srv or
>> /usr/local/share/man on my system.

> Achieving FHS compliance by upgrading could be sometimes very
> tricky.  Please perform FHS compliance tests on newly installed
> systems only.

	Umm. How would creation of these new directories impact my
 system?  I agree that my fstab ought not to be mucked with, but
 creating three dirs if they do not already exists ought to hurt
 nothing? 

> If you use the latest base-files to install a new system, you will
> get /srv, /media, etc.

	And are we abandoning the machines already running Debian? Why
 do they not get FHS compliant, since third party software which one
 might install may soon rely on the new directories?

	manoj
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