[fhs-discuss] bug 98 - How can a UNIX newbie easily come to know more about the FHS while INSIDE the fs?

[Martin Baehr]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:08:51AM +1000, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > > Sorry to tack another thread into this. Looking at those pages made
> > > me wonder if a heir (or filesystem) man page shipped (in lsb?
> > > somewhere else?) would be an appropriate way for us to try and
> > > resolve 98.
> > > 
> > > http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/hier.7.html
> > 
> > contains FHS 2.2, someone may need to poke them about 2.3 which came
> > out years ago (or wait until 3.0 is out)
> 
> probably a 'wait for 3' thing.
> 
> > so effectively, this seems to be resolved already. we can hardly track
> > every distribution to get them to include the pages from kernel.org
> 
> If we decide this is linux specific, then thats fine. If its meant to
> be wider scope i tend to feel it should be hosted elseware. (if only
> provided as the canonical location elseware).

actually, given that the FHS andthe hier manpage target different people
the manpage is for endusers/admins while FHS is for distributors and
application developers, i think i would be good to have a reduced
version in hier that removes all non-linux bits and maybe even allows
customization to match the distributors actual choices.

greetings, martin.
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