FHS defaults for samba4

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:48 +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2006 06:05 am, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > One of these is FHS.  The use of lib for the smb.conf file in the
> > default prefix and the like has been with us for many long years, and we
> > need to fix that up.  In Samba3, debian and the like have patches that
> > change Samba's core to fix this up (even in addition to the --with-fhs
> > configure option), but we should avoid having to do that.
> Can I suggest that you might want to put a "4" suffix in applicable places to 
> allow parallel installations (probably not critical for cache directories, 
> since you presumably won't be running both, but maybe nice for consistency 
> anyway).

The idea is attractive at first, but gets very messy very quickly, if
you want to achieve anything more than what we get with --prefix
already.  

For it to work with parallel installations of RPMs, we would have to
suffix every binary.  Then we should also update the manpage
names/contents, init scripts and some of the scripts which invoke
smbscript.  

In any case I'll certainly try and allow such things in the future, but
I won't aim for it as an initial step.  Autoconf has some idea of
execuatable suffix which will help in some places.  The other thing
might be the 'alternatives' system.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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