[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#481105: adjust patch to pygrub and hvmloader

[Teodor]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Marco Sinhoreli <msinhore at gmail.com> wrote:
> In virtinst package, we are pointing the pygrub and hvmloader to
> /etc/xen-default/bin directory files. To us, this is sufficient to fix
> our package issue. I suggest to use alternatives to point these to
> /usr/bin and so, standardize with another distros. Well, I think this
> is the easy way to solve it.

According to the FHS this is not allowed:
####
3.7.1. Purpose
The /etc hierarchy contains configuration files. A "configuration
file" is a local file used to control the operation
of a program; it must be static and cannot be an executable binary.

3.7.2. Requirements
No binaries may be located under /etc.
####

I don't know if the directory /etc/xen-default/bin contains some
binaries but after the name it seems that it does. As a location for
XEN defaults it is annoying to create another directory instead using
/etc/default/.

Thanks