[Fedora-packaging] Introducing a directory for installed test programs

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Feb 6 12:46:15 UTC 2012


On 02/06/2012 01:37 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
> The first thing coming in my mind was using something like
> /usr/pkg1/test  and put a configuration file for each package
> (containing path and other stuff) into something like
> /etc/tests/conf.d/. The benefit of this would be that additional
> information can be stored for each test.

The FHS explicitly forbids that:

  Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the
  /usr hierarchy.

~tom

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