Re: /media for sarge?
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:39:24 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> said:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Henning Makholm wrote:
>> Scripsit sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>
>> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:51:55AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> > > 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.
>>
>> Couldn't the postinst be written to not create the directories on
>> upgrade from a version later x.y.z, where x.y.z is the first
>> version that has this behavior?
> That would still force people who do not want them to remove them
> after an upgrade.
Can we ask the installer, then? a low priority question,
defaulting whatever way pleases you.
> Really, for "useless" directories like /srv which no package
> currently uses, or /opt which no debian package is ever expected to
> need, I don't see the point in creating them on upgrades.
But not creating them on upgrade effectively prevents packages
from making use of these directories, since they shall not be on all
machines.
> I don't want people to think we are more compliant because some
> empty directories were created during an upgrade. That would be a
> false sense of compliance. We will be *really* FHS compliant when
> apache config files start pointing to /srv instead of /var/www, and
> for /media, when the debian-installer team agree with apt authors
> about the best way to switch to /media/cdrom from /cdrom, etc.
But this is a chicken and egg problem. Apache is not gonna
move unless the dir exists on most installed machines, and so
on. This is not a matter of compliance testing. This is engineering a
solution that would enable us to move forwards, and to utilize these
new FHS mandated directories.
manoj
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