Re: [PATCH] git-pasky debian dir

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Joshua T. Corbin (jcorbin@wunjo.org) wrote:
> On 22 April 2005 12:16, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
> > This whole bit should be formalized.
> Agreed, hence why I did it as a package-build-time patch instead of changing 
> directly in my repository.
> 
> > Ideally, I'd like to do /usr/bin/git frontend, with all scripts
> > in /usr/libexec/git/.
> How standard is this '/usr/libexec'? I have no such directory on my Debian 
> boxes. If /usr/share rubs you the wroung way, what of 
> simply /usr/lib/git-pasky?

Hrm, it's not in FHS, but it's certainly in use on my install:

$ find /usr/libexec | wc -l
122

I don't care too much, I imagine distros wind up customizing this
anyway.

> > However, this requires something more than hardcoding paths.
> Definately, and it may not play well with the simpler method of installing to 
> $HOME/bin. This was just a quick hack as not to pollute /usr/bin with files 
> that aren't directly executed by the user.

Yup, that's why I dropped 'em in /usr/local/bin for now.

> > You get the idea ;-)  I certainly see how it makes sense for a first
> > run to get it going. But this will need fixing upstream.
> This will all be moot when cogito goes the way of cg-* ;-)

Hrm...good point.

thanks,
-chris
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