[lsb-discuss] FHS 3.0 Draft 1

Jeff Licquia licquia at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 16 09:25:55 PDT 2011


Just in time for LinuxCon, I'm pleased to announce the first draft of 
FHS 3.0!

You can see it here:

http://dev.linuxfoundation.org/~licquia/fhs-3.0-drafts/

Versions of the draft are available in single-HTML, chunked-HTML, PDF 
and text.  Source code is available from our Bazaar repository here:

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/lsb/devel/fhs-spec

There are a significant number of changes in this draft from FHS 2.3. 
For a complete list of issues, both fixed and still outstanding, see our 
tracking bug in the Linux Foundation Bugzilla here:

http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758

Some of the highlights:

  - The source is now valid DocBook XML, with the appropriate tool changes.

  - New directories, including /run and /sys.

  - Removal of older compatibility directories, such as /usr/X11R6.

  - Many typos fixed, and clarifications made to ambiguous sections.

There are still some issues left to resolve, most notably:

  - A few of the proposed specification changes are still undone; these 
are usually issues where there have been differences of opinion.  If you 
don't see something in the draft that you think should have been in, 
please add comments to the bug report for your feature.  It should be 
linked to the tracking bug above.

  - The publishing information has yet to be updated.

  - Since the build infrastructure has changed as part of the move to 
XML, the formatting has not been fully vetted.

  - A reference section still needs to be added.

This draft should contain all of the major changes that have been 
proposed to bring the FHS up to date with current distribution practice. 
  Please review the appropriate sections, and send us feedback; we want 
FHS 3.0 to be as good a description of current practice as we can make 
it.  Also, feel free to forward this announcement to all interested 
parties (but please take care to follow netiquette and not spam mailing 
lists where it might be unwanted).

You can send feedback to the fhs-discuss mailing list.  Information on 
posting and subscribing can be found here:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss

Alternatively, you can file bugs or comment on existing bugs in the 
Linux Foundation Bugzilla:

http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/

Please file all bugs against the "FHS" product.

-- 
Jeff Licquia
The Linux Foundation
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licquia at linuxfoundation.org

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