9base in Fedora?

[Petr Sabata]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:17:17PM +0200, Petr Sabata wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've been thinking about packaging 9base [1], a port of Plan 9 userspace tools,
> for Fedora. I'm interested in opinions on what style is "better" and why.
> 
> The problem is most of 9base binaries (and their manpages)  have the same
> name as their coreutils (and other) equivalents, therefore we need to install
> them to somewhere else. Upstream suggests installing all its directories (bin,
> share, lib, ...) into /usr/local. This is not acceptable for obvious reasons.
> 
> Options:
> 
>     #1, aka the Gentoo way 
>     Gentoo installs its 9base package into /usr/plan9, basically not touching
>     9base files at all. This collides with FHS and therefore would require an
>     exception in Packaging Guidelines.
> 
>     #2, aka the Debian way 
>     Debian installs its 9base package into /usr/lib. Well, most of it. They
>     also prefix all the manpages with 'plan9-', not the binaries, though.
>     This placement (provided we use %{_libdir}) introduces issues for Plan
>     9 rc shell scripts and their shebangs.
> 
>     #3, aka the Fedora way?
>     Should we do this in some other way?
> 
> 
> I personally like the #1 better since it's more clean (except for the required
> FHS exception) and more or less aligned with upstream.
> 
> [1] http://tools.suckless.org/9base
> 
> -- 
> # Petr Sabata

I'd like to thank all for their input.

As I understand it, the best way to do this in Fedora, with respect to
same ideas in this thread, would be having %{_libexecdir}/plan9 or similar,
with bin, lib and share (or whatever upstream supplies) subdirectories.

I think creating prefixed symlinks for binaries and manpages would just make it
more ugly. Users should adjust their PATH/MANPATH if they wish to use those.

-- 
# Petr Sabata
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