Re: Questions about filesystem layout for new package nisca
Thanks. I'll do this.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@kaplowitz.org
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:13:41PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:43:45PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> > Hi. I have decided (and gotten permission) to package NISCA, which is a program
> > that is similar to but more customizable than MRTG. It is written in php, so
> > there are no compiled files.
>
> Thus all files are architecture independant. Those go to
> /usr/share/<package>/ as stated by the FHS.
>
> > It has one configuration file (functions.php),
>
> /etc, probably /etc/<package> as the filename is not easy to
> identify with the package it belongs to.
>
> > a few PHP scripts not meant to run under the web server but as daemons or
> > one-time scripts,
>
> Scripts should go to /usr/s?bin, as long as there is a chanche
> they will be run from the commandline. /usr/sbin might be
> preferable since they are not meant to be run from an ordinary
> user. You also need an initscript in /etc/init.d to start the
> daemons I think.
>
> > a few .sql files to set up things in MySQL,
>
> /usr/share/<package>, unless needed elswhere by MySQL.
>
> > and a few PHP
> > HTML files meant as Web pages.
>
> Place them in a subdir of /usr/share/<package> and place a
> symlink in /var/www, the default wwwroot on debian systems.
>
> > Plus a README and INSTALL file.
>
> The README should go into /usr/share/doc/<package>, the INSTALL
> probably not unless it contains instructions how to configure the
> package.
>
> > How would you
> > suggest I integrate all these files into the filesystem?
>
> Please read /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.txt.gz and
> /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz (in the package
> debian-policy) if you need more explanation of my answers.
>
> Ingo
> --
> 16 Hard coded constant for amount of room allowed for
> cache align and faster forwarding (tunable)
>
> -- seen in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/TUNABLE
>
>
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