Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Ralf Lang wrote:
while packaging horde4 I noticed the rpmlint warning horde4.noarch: W: non-etc-or-var-file-marked-as-conffile /srv/www/htdocs/horde4/config/conf.php.dist
If config files are allowed to live in /var (where web apps used to live in old times) why are they not allowed in /srv ?
Good topic. Why do web apps not adhere to the traditional layout we are used to anyways? /srv is a mess. It mixes vendor files with user files, config files with static data, binaries with state databases etc. This is not specific to horde of course but let's use it as example. Why not keep the default document root /srv/www/htdocs clean and put horde to e.g. /usr/share/horde4, it's config files to /etc/horde4 and it's database or whatever variable data it has to /var/lib/horde4?
Looking at Fedora they do exactly that. Taking phpMyAdmin as random sample their package does not contain excessive patches or symlink tricks to make it work. So getting a clean /srv isn't that hard at all. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org