Re: [Ltib] Re: Changing ltib base dir

[Stuart Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:06 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 11:00 AM, John Koleszar wrote:
> 
> > Kumar Gala wrote:
> >>
> >> On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Kumar,
> >>>
> >>> I would be worried about making it / as this would make the host  
> >>> support
> >>> packages (that go into /opt/freescale/ltib) overwrite the host  
> >>> you are
> >>> installed on.  Also the LPP would end up as /pkgs, which again  
> >>> probably
> >>> is not idea.
> >>
> >> I'm not suggesting /, but /opt (this we'd get /opt/ltib and /opt/ 
> >> pkgs)
> >>
> >
> > /opt/ltib and /opt/pkgs don't conform to the FHS. I can understand  
> > the desire to
> > remove the freescale reference, but I think unless you're going to  
> > move all the
> > files currently under /opt/freescale to a more standardized layout,  
> > you really
> > need an extra directory layer to encapsulate them. Simply renaming
> > /opt/freescale to /opt/ltib might be sufficient (though /opt/ltib/ 
> > ltib is ugly).
> > But presuming to "own" a directory as generic as /opt/pkgs is unwise.
> 
> Fair enough, we could solve the problem by fixing it so pkgs lived  
> under ltib so we'd have:
> 
> /opt/ltib
> /opt/ltib/pkgs
> 
> - k
> 

I could live with that.  I'd just have to re-train myself when I do my
'rm -rf' to get rid of the install not to include pkgs.

Regards, Stuart