Re: What configuration prefix ?
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:06:37PM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm going to try to get gnome-libs to build some snapshot-style
> > packages from out of the CVS.
> >
> > Where should we install this stuff?
> >
> > I was thinking we could put everything under /opt/dsp
> >
> > Where dsp = Debian Snapshots Project. Of course, dsp also stands for
> > "digital signal processor". Do you think people will get confused?
>
> Yes. Acronym overuse is bad, and DSP has been around for a long time.
> How about /opt/snapshots?
I was afraid of that. I'd like a shorter path. Maybe /opt/snap?
> > What do people think of using /opt? I think it's a better choice than
> > putting things under /usr/local. And we don't want to put things in
> > the FSSTND locations, because we want to be able to install these at
> > the same time as the released Debian packages without causing
> > conflicts.
>
> I'm not fond of /opt in general, but I agree the alternatives are
> worse.
Agreed. Another alternative would be to do something like /snap, but
that isn't provided for under the FHS/FSSTND.
> > Also, how's this for a naming scheme?
> >
> > Regular Packages Snapshot Packages
> > ---------------- -----------------
> > gnome-hello dsp-gnome-hello
> >
> > The idea is that both sets of packages can be installed at the same
> > time. By having the 'dsp-' prefix at the beginning of the name, the
> > packages have a nice sort order.
> >
> > Another issue that the recent Gnome freeze just brought up: now there
> > are two branches of the CVS - a stable branch and an unstable branch.
> > I'll follow the stable branch for now with my snapshots. But how
> > should we handle the situation in the future where there are two
> > branches we want to track?
>
> Perhaps snap-stable-gnome-hello? Or dsp-stable-gnome-hello if you
> prefer, but it's less immediately obvious. And /opt/snapshots-stable?
That sounds good. How does /opt/snap-stable sound?
I think I'll use the snap-stable- prefix on the package names if
people don't mind.
The problem with putting long prefixes on the names is that it becomes
impossible to use "dpkg -l" to see the full filename. I guess people can
always use "dpkg --get-selections".
Cheers,
- Jim
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