[CCC DEV] Supporting multiple platforms

[cljacobsen at gmail.com]

On 18 June 2010 16:18, Matt Jadud <matt at jadud.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
>> can't use /usr for some reason, then it should use /opt/occam to be
>> FHS-compliant.
>
> Yeah, I knew that... but I didn't know that /opt was a compliant
> option. (I missed that.) I didn't want to touch "/usr" directly,
> because I didn't trust my process. At least this way I could keep
> everything self-contained.
>
> I'll flip it to /opt for the moment. I knew the package wasn't
> compliant, but this is a big tire-patch. I started reading the
> documentation on proper packaging, and will revisit it after this
> "sprint" on the Mega to do things correctly. (I'd like a "good" Deb
> package for OSCON, so this is definitely on my to-do list.)

Since you're going through the package manager I'd think that you
should not worry about messing things up in /usr too much. Consider
using lintian on the package to check it is ok. Here is a list of some
useful tools: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/tools.html

C