FS#12912 - make aif & arch-installer hier/fhs-compliant

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Friday, 23 January 2009, 17:58 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Friday, 27 March 2009, 20:55 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.01-alpha
Due in Version 2009.08-alpha
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

aif (and maybe arch-installer, depending on how long we will keep using it) should be compliant with the FHS.
See man hier or http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

the only downside is we won't start the installers anymore like /arch/setup or /arch/aif which may be considered "less cool". To me it's a sign of Arch maturing, though I will always remain nostalgic about the plenty of times I've typed '/arch' when installing a system.

the advantages are: standard compliance and cleaner makepkg/namcap output, we get to use the wonderful variable called $PATH (without needing to update it).
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Friday, 27 March 2009, 20:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 24 January 2009, 05:27 GMT
Having this hardcoded has always made it near impossible to test and debug the installer on a real system as well, so I'd definitely support this change.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 15 February 2009, 20:56 GMT
implemented in aif (git)

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