On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:51:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > 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? i think the issue was more of annoyance than impact... if a local admin removes said dirs, he/she'd probably like them to stay gone. > > 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? i think i agree with the arguments against automatically creating them in upgrades, but isn't this the type of one-time-question that debconf would be good for? that is, in the maintainer scripts, if the version change is from pre-fhs to post-fhs, ask the user "upgrade to latest fhs spec?" this way, i think everybody would get what they wanted. sean
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