[csw-maintainers] Creation of users and groups added to cswclassutils

[Sebastian Kayser]

Philip Brown schrieb:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:45:33PM +0100, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>> ....
>> 2) If CSWfoo already has configuration files directly beneath etc/
>>    (this i the case for CSWdovecot) i as a package maintainer would feel
>>    inclined to consolidate these into the etc/cswfoo directory as well.
>>    On the other hand (and that feeling is stronger) i wouldn't want to
>>    change configuration file locations as not to break things on package
>>    updates.
>>
>
> I think that is inappropriate.
> My rationale for that being:
>
> /opt/csw/etc[/foo] (and /etc/opt/csw[/foo] )
>   should be where conf files for *running* the software go.
>
> In contrast,
> /opt/csw/etc/CSWfoo
>
> should be where conf files for configuring the *package* of it goes.
>
> This is in my mind, for clarity's sake.
> if someone is reading the standard documentation on the product, they will
> look in /opt/csw/etc/foo, and see all the software-documented files they
> expect. If on the other hand, they see a bunch of other things, they may
> get confused why they are there.

Ok, we are on the same line here then. When i referred to etc/cswfoo i
really meant etc/foo. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the
clarification.

> I was thinking that files in /opt/csw/etc/CSWfoo, should only be
> applicable
> to pkgadd/pkgrm time.
> Hence, why in my opinion, the directory should be named after the PKG
> name.

Yep, just something other than /opt/csw/etc/foo.

Sebastian