Proposed paths for Samba 4.0

[Luk Claes]

On 07/12/2011 06:44 PM, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Am 23.06.2011 12:06, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
>> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 18:39 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
>>> Am 21.06.2011 18:26, schrieb Stefan (metze) Metzmacher:

>>>>> What exactly should --enable-fhs do?
>>>>>
>>>>> Which paths should it change, what should they be changed to, and what
>>>>> priority order (enable-fhs, gnu options, with options) should apply?
>>>>
>>>> I'll propose some patches in the next days.
>>>
>>> Here's my branch...
>>>
>>> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=metze/samba/wip.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master4-dynconfig

>> I look forward to seeing the details. 
>>
>> One concern that I have is that we are back to having
>> users/distributions able to specify very many individual paths. 
>>
>> If we want uniform behaviour from our users and distributors, then it
>> would be worth reducing the number of things that they can set, and that
>> we have to test.  That's why I did --with-sockets-dir for example, which
>> allows us to add more sockets without adding more parameters that
>> distributions have to keep up with. 
> 
> Ok, I've removed some of the options again.
> 
> I'd propose the following patches.

> -    'with-lockdir'                        : [
'${LOCALSTATEDIR}/lock', 'where to put short term disposable state files' ],
> -    'with-cachedir'                       : [
'${LOCALSTATEDIR}/cache', 'where to put cache files' ],
> +    'with-lockdir'                        : [
'${LOCALSTATEDIR}/locks', 'where to put short term disposable state
files' ],
> +    'with-cachedir'                       : [
'${LOCALSTATEDIR}/locks', 'where to put cache files' ],

In a distribution ${LOCALSTATEDIR} would typically be /var. /var/lock
and /var/cache seem very sane to me, though /var/locks would be a new
directory, so would mean we have to change both defaults in any case...

All the socket dirs, we probably move to (some subdir of) /run in the
future.

Cheers

Luk