Re: gnats file placement

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 21:44 03.06.01 +0400, Peter Novodvorsky wrote:

> Hello!
>
> default gnats package has some problems with FHS. I think, that
> this problems should be resolved before GNATS 4 release. It is
> obvious that all databases should go to /var/lib/gnats. databases,
> dbconfig, global host_access should go to /etc/gnats.
>
> But, how should we deal with pr-edit, diff-prs etc. I think that
> /usr/lib/gnats isn't the best place for them.  Maybe we could move
> them to /usr/sbin?

I think all backend programs should go in /usr/local/sbin.

I do suspect that these things won't happen for 4.0, but one thing that I 
think is fairly pressing is the placement of the global gnatsd.host_access 
and gnatsd.access files. They are currently located in the rather illogical 
location of /PREFIX/share/gnats. They should be located together with the 
other global files, namely the databases and send-pr.conf files, currently 
in /usr/local/etc/gnats. Preferably, all these files should then be moved 
to /etc/gnats.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer