[Fedora-packaging] FHS being ignored

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/23/2010 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
Design flaw?

Who populates this directory?
Who uses it?

>> 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.

I prefer RH to learn not to continue ignoring estabished standards.

Ralf