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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:41:17 -0230 (NDT)
From:      Neil Zanella <nzanella@math.mun.ca>
To:        adrian@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9908271639190.28947-100000@fermat.math.mun.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19990827195454.A6794@ewok.creative.net.au>

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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 adrian@freebsd.org wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999, Neil Zanella wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR misc/13407; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > 
> > From: Neil Zanella <nzanella@math.mun.ca>
> > To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
> > Cc: nzanella@cs.mun.ca, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy
> > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:33:19 -0230 (NDT)
> > 
> >  On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> >  
> >  > Could you supply a (possibly selective) list, perhaps?  Possibly with
> >  > reasons?  You need to give a slightly more in-depth account of the
> >  > problem. (since the site seems inapproachable from my current location)
> >  
> >  The document should at least be approchable from any location as it
> >  resides at <ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/fhs/fhs-2.0.tar.gz>.
> >  All the details are in that document. I am sorry about running the
> >  old 2.2.7 version of FreeBSD but I am not the systems administrator
> >  and so I'm afraid I cannot perform the upgrade although the sys admin
> >  will certainly upgrade the machine in the future.
> 
> FHS sounds like the FSSTD stuff that went around the linuxen a while back,
> because debian/redhat/slackware/suse/blah had different layouts for
> binaries.

The FSSTND was a file system standard for Linux distributions but then
a need for a unifying Unix filesystem standard was needed so people
developed the FHS 2.0 correcting many flaws in the FSSTND.

Neil



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