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Autor: Steve Litt
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Packaging Vdev
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:26:49 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:05:20 +0100
> aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > By default, PSTAT (a dependency of VDEV) is installed in
> > "/usr/local", just as VDEV.
> >
> > As Daniel Raurich explained in another thread:
> >
> > [...] the "/usr/local" directory is for non-packaged local stuff
> > [...]
> >
> > So, should i change this configuration for those packages, or should
> > i skip debhelper's "dh_usrlocal" script adding:
> >
> > binary:
> >      dh binary --before dh_usrlocal
> >      dh binary --after dh_usrlocal

> >
> > to debian/rules?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >     Aitor.  

>
> This is pure opinion: Get a second opinion:
>
> My understanding is that /usr/local is the base of the tree used for
> software *not* installed by the distro's package manager. When I
> compile my own dmenu or lyx, it goes under the /usr/local directory,
> with all executables going in /usr/local/bin.
>
> My understanding is that the distro's package manager never puts
> anything in the /usr/local tree. If the thing is an executable, it
> goes in /usr/bin. Libraries go in /usr/lib. Header files go
> in /usr/include. Fonts and themes and other stuff like that goes
> in /usr/share.
>
> If /usr/local/VDEV is a directory, I'd imagine you'd farm out its
> files to the directories listed in the preceding paragraph. If VDEV
> is an executable, it would go in /usr/bin, or perhaps /sbin
> or /usr/sbin.
>
> Like I say, I'm the world's least authoritative person when it comes
> to package managers, but if I've understood what I've heard others,
> the preceding pretty much sums up what to do.


Stephanie later brought up a reason why it should be on /sbin or
something else always on the root partition, so ignore what I said.

SteveT

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