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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Sun Nov 10 04:05:02 PST 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>     Thanks for your message.  To take your points in reverse order: the
  35 binary data files used by Services are endian-independent, so they should
  36 be able to go into /var/share.  (I haven't actually tested this, but I
  37 don't use fwrite() anywhere except when writing strings, so there shouldn't
  38 be any problems.  If there are, it's a bug. ;) )
  39
  40      Services currently assumes all the data files are under a single
  41 directory tree, and it'll take a bit of work to redo that; I'll look into
  42 it, but I can't promise getting it done soon.  As a cheap hack, something
  43 like the following (untested) should work, though it leaves a few symlinks
  44 hanging around in /var/share/ircservices:
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  46 ./configure -bindest /usr/bin -datdest /var/share/ircservices
  47 make install
  48 mkdir -p /usr/lib/ircservices
  49 rm -rf /usr/lib/ircservices/modules
  50 cp -a /var/share/ircservices/modules /usr/lib/ircservices/
  51 rm -rf /var/share/ircservices/modules
  52 ln -s /usr/lib/ircservices/modules /var/share/ircservices/
  53 mkdir -p /usr/share/ircservices
  54 rm -rf /usr/share/ircservices/languages
  55 cp -a /var/share/ircservices/languages /usr/share/ircservices/
  56 rm -rf /var/share/ircservices/languages
  57 ln -s /usr/share/ircservices/languages /var/share/ircservices/
  58 mkdir -p /var/log/ircservices
  59 ln -fs /var/log/ircservices/ircservices.log /var/share/ircservices/
  60 mkdir -p /etc/ircservices
  61 mv -f /var/share/ircservices/example-*.conf /etc/ircservices/
  62 ln -fs /etc/ircservices/{ircservices,modules}.conf /var/share/ircservices/
  63
  64   --Andrew Church
  65     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at achurch.org</A>
  66     <A HREF="http://achurch.org/">http://achurch.org/</A>
  67
  68 &gt;<i>Hi,
  69 </I>&gt;<i>
  70 </I>&gt;<i>I'm writing to this list because I plan to make an official Debian version of
  71 </I>&gt;<i>ircservices. I know there is a .deb on the website, but I think it's worth
  72 </I>&gt;<i>to put it in the main debian archive, to have it available on each architecture
  73 </I>&gt;<i>debian supports, and directly from the package managing system.
  74 </I>&gt;<i>
  75 </I>&gt;<i>In order to do so, I must plan to do some changes, at least in the directory
  76 </I>&gt;<i>structure ircservices use. The main thing I must do to have it included
  77 </I>&gt;<i>is to have a more separated directory structure, which refects the FHS.
  78 </I>&gt;<i>I'm wondering if this changes can be received upstream, as additional options
  79 </I>&gt;<i>to configure and make, without changing the actual default behaviour, but
  80 </I>&gt;<i>simply allowing it to be changed calling configure and make with some options.
  81 </I>&gt;<i>
  82 </I>&gt;<i>In this way there will be no problem for the actual users, who won't see the
  83 </I>&gt;<i>changes from their point of view, but the scripts could be used without changes
  84 </I>&gt;<i>by the debian maintainer scripts (and thus autobuilders).
  85 </I>&gt;<i>
  86 </I>&gt;<i>Here are the directory structure I plan to use in the debian version:
  87 </I>&gt;<i>
  88 </I>&gt;<i>binaries:    /usr/bin/
  89 </I>&gt;<i>modules:     /usr/lib/ircservices/
  90 </I>&gt;<i>databases:   /var/lib/ircservices/
  91 </I>&gt;<i>logs:                /var/log/ircservices/
  92 </I>&gt;<i>configuration:       /etc/ircservices/
  93 </I>&gt;<i>
  94 </I>&gt;<i>
  95 </I>&gt;<i>I hope this (the package and the changes) isn't a problem for you.
  96 </I>&gt;<i>Otherwise I'll be happy to talk about it, and eventually withdraw my
  97 </I>&gt;<i>proposal.
  98 </I>&gt;<i>
  99 </I>&gt;<i>BTW I shall ask for an advice: the services database binary format is
 100 </I>&gt;<i>architecture dependent or independent?
 101 </I>&gt;<i>For example can one simply copy the databases from a little endian to a
 102 </I>&gt;<i>big endian machine and expect them to work? In this case I think I'll move
 103 </I>&gt;<i>them to /var/share/ircservices insteas of /var/lib/
 104 </I>&gt;<i>
 105 </I>&gt;<i>Thank in advance,
 106 </I>&gt;<i>
 107 </I>&gt;<i>--
 108 </I>&gt;<i>Guido Trotter  - <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">ultrotter at debian.org</A>
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