arla rpms for redhat 6.0?

[Alex Martin]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jim Nance wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
>     Thanks for being willing to do this.  Before you
> start I want to complicate your life :-)  I have
> looked
> at the rpms referenced on the arla web page.  I
> believe
> that they unstall most of their files under
> /usr/athena
> 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
>     Obviously I want you to build the RPMS to install
> everything under /usr/afsws and everyone at MIT will
> prefer /usr/athena.  Since you are making the RPMS,
> you get to decide where they go, but that probably
> means someone else will need to make another set.
>     Here is my suggestion.  Lets figure out where
> everything would go on a FHS compliant system and
> make the RPMS put arla into those locations.  Then
> we can make another set of RPMS which installs
> symlinks for compatability with particular "styles"
> of AFS instalations.  With this scheme I for example
> would install the arla rpm and the
> arla-transarc-compat
> rpm.  Someone else might do the arla rpm and the
> arla-athena-compat rpm.  I think we can build all the
> -compat rpms out of the same .spec file that builds
> the arla rpm.
>     Any comments?
> 

Hi Jim, 
             I would be completely in favour of sorting out 
a standard set of RedHat/FHS complaint RPMS.  As I 
understand it there are essentially two opts: 

1) Treat arla and krb4 as optional system components 
and put them under /opt. 

2) Place  the components seperately in the /usr 
hierarchy  i.e.  /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/etc and /usr/lib 
as appropriate. The cache should be under /var. 

I suspect RH would do the latter, if they were ever 
to include arla in its distribution.  I think either would 
also allow one to have the transarc product 
installed, which might be useful.  Comments? 

cheers,
Alex