Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:34:55 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Serban Mihai <mihais@ravantivirus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory structure for commercial products Message-ID: <20021010153455.A11533@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <3DA5704E.8000904@ravantivirus.com>; from mihais@ravantivirus.com on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:19:26PM %2B0300 References: <3DA5704E.8000904@ravantivirus.com>
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On Thu, 10-Oct-2002 at 15:19:26 +0300, Serban Mihai wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a standard/official specification for the filesystem > hierarchy used on FreeBSD (and all BSDs) regarding commercial products. > > Conforming to hier(7) the PREFIX (/usr/local) location should be used > for local packages. And there the /usr hierarchy should be used. > Let's suppose I have to install a commercial product named 'foo'. The > package contains binaries, libraries, logs, UNIX sockets, temporary > files, configuration files and periodically updated data files. > Does the following directory structure conform to standards? > PREFIX/foo/{bin, lib, etc, tmp, log, data, run...} > > or should it be: > PREFIX/bin/foo > PREFIX/lib/foo > PREFIX/etc/foo > PREFIX/libdata/foo/{tmp, log, data, run..}? > > Is there any other solution? I will greatly appreciate your help. One thing to observe is, that some people like to mount their /usr read-only. This might be a reason to put the tmp and log data into /var (instead of /usr/local/...). Samba, for example, puts its temporary data in /var. This might especially be true for servers. -Andre > > Best regards. > > Mihai Serban > AV Development Manager > GeCAD Software / RAV Division > > > > This mail was scanned by RAV AntiVirus > on behalf of GeCAD Software. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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