Re: [Fedora-packaging] Confusion regarding file location

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:36:51PM +0530, Rangeen Basu wrote:
>  Hi
>  
>  I am tying to package GNUMed software which has server and client
>  separate. The server files consists of a few sql files, a few python
>  files and some shell scripts. There are some .conf files as well but
>  they are not config files in true sense as they never change. They are
>  more like static data files. The upstream provides the source where
>  the .conf files , .py files and shell scripts have to be in the same
>  directory. These files are used only once during the initial setup or
>  bootstrap and are never used again. Also the python files are just
>  scripts and not python modules which will never be imported by anyone.
>  Can all these files be put in the same location such as
>  /usr/lib/gnumed-server . Where should .sql files be put.
>   
Since it sounds like none of this is arch specific, probably
%{_datadir}/gnumed-server is where you want them.  However, I have
a question -- since this is a server, does something need to get run that
the client connects to?  If so, that should go in /usr/sbin/ or /usr/bin.

If it's just setting up an environment that the client can run in, it might
be better to have some sort of wrapper like /usr/bin/gnumed-setup that
invokes the scripts and sets up the environment.

-Toshio