[openstack-dev] [tripleo] Default paths in os-*-config projects

Petr Blaho pblaho at redhat.com
Tue Apr 15 12:04:52 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 06:30:59PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Ben Nemec's message of 2014-04-14 15:41:23 -0700:
> > Right now the os-*-config projects default to looking for their files in 
> > /opt/stack, with an override env var provided for other locations.  For 
> > packaging purposes it would be nice if they defaulted to a more 
> > FHS-compliant location like /var/lib.  For devtest we could either 
> > override the env var or simply install the appropriate files to /var/lib.
> > 
> > This was discussed briefly in IRC and everyone seemed to be onboard with 
> > the change, but Robert wanted to run it by the list before we make any 
> > changes.  If anyone objects to changing the default, please reply here. 
> >   I'll take silence as agreement with the move. :-)
> > 
> 
> +1 from me for doing FHS compliance. :)
> 
> /var/lib is not actually FHS compliant as it is for "Variable state
> information". os-collect-config does have such things, and does use
> /var/lib. But os-refresh-config reads executables and os-apply-config
> reads templates, neither of which will ever be "variable state
> information".
> 
> /usr/share would be the right place, as it is "Architecture independent
> data". I suppose if somebody wants to compile a C program as an o-r-c
> script we could rethink that, but I'd just suggest they drop it in a bin
> dir and exec it from a one line shell script in the /usr/share.
> 
> So anyway, I suggest:
> 
> /usr/share/os-apply-config/templates
> /usr/share/os-refresh-config/scripts

+1 for /usr/share/
> 
> With the usual hierarchy underneath.
> 
> We'll need to continue to support the non-FHS paths for at least a few
> releases as well.
> 
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