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On 07/08/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, |
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>>> /var/games, etc.) are specified by the FHS. So they're not |
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>>> entirely games team policy. |
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>> I just checked some random packages on Debian and found that |
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>> adherence to this path there is mixed. I'd say the majority of |
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>> packages I checked installed in /usr/games, but quite a few did |
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>> not. Many of the ones that tended to install there were games |
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>> that probably predate the Linux kernel, but this was by no means |
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>> exclusively the case. |
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>> Their official policy says that games should go in /usr/games |
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>> though. They also state "Each game decides on its own security |
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>> policy." They apparently only use a games group for things like |
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>> high scores and save game dirs, and use sgid on the binary to |
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>> accomplish this (minimizing its use in general). (Note, I don't |
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>> run Debian much, so this is the result of a quick scan of their |
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>> policies and the real world may vary.) |
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> It certainly differs between distros. Debian generally uses |
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> /usr/games and has a games group for score files. Fedora has chosen |
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> to ignore the FHS and installs everything in /usr/bin. IIUC, they |
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> also use an own group for each game if it needs to write shared |
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> score files. [1] |
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> Ulrich |
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> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.games/365 |
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Just to clarify, the current Gentoo policy is that game executables go |
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in /usr/games/bin and libraries go in /usr/games/$(get_libdir). |
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Debian policy follows FHS in that games binaries go directly in |
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/usr/games and games libraries go in the same directory as other |
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libraries. |
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- -- |
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Jonathan Callen |
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