arla rpms for redhat 6.0?

[Stephen Adler]

On Apr 29,  5:58pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> Subject: Re: arla rpms for redhat 6.0?
> In message <19990429172741.15259.rocketmail at web214.mail.yahoo.com>, Jim Nance
w
> rites:
> +-----
> | or something like that.  When I install it here I put
> | everything under /usr/afsws because thats where our
> | AFS stuff is on our transarc supported platforms.  If
> | Red Hat ever ships arla as part of its distribution I
> | am sure they will try to package it up in accordance
> | with where the FHS says they should go:
> | ftp://ftp.pathname.com/pub/fhs-2.0.tar.gz
> +--->8
>
> Which will break the world:  unless an AFS-aware program comes out of Andrew
> (old = /usr/andy, new = /usr/local) it assumes /usr/afsws, largely thanks to
> AIX.
>
> The best idea for RPM would be to choose some reasonable default, then build
> a relocateable RPM so "rpm --prefix" can be used to install it wherever is
> preferred in the local environment.
>

This was exactly my plan.... But I'm stuck with gdbm/ndbm issues building
kerberos right now....

Steve.