[Fedora-packaging] FHS being ignored

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jun 23 14:45:44 UTC 2010


Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said: 
> >> Another FHS violation has made it into Fedora:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606854
> >
> > Its a pseudo-filesystem, akin to /proc
> 
> => /var/<somewhere>

Won't work. /var can be a separate filesystem, cgroup filesystem
may need to be available as boot.

> Also,
> # rpm -qf /cgroup
> libcgroup-0.35.1-1.fc13.x86_64
> doesn't make sense.

It could possibly be filesystem, I suppose. The original proposal
was to add it in systemd just because it used it, which is obviously
wrong.

> This doesn't mean we have to "blindly swallow" further cases
> 
> (We already have been ignorant about /selinux).

I prefer 'not blindly adhering to a dogmatic standard', myself.

Bill


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