The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS, see URL) requires /srv and /var/lib/misc directories to be present on a FHS-compliant distribution. [ http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM ] "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. [...] Therefore, no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv. However /srv should always exist on FHS compliant systems and should be used as the default location for such data." [ http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION ] "There is one required subdirectory, /var/lib/misc, which is intended for state files that don't need a subdirectory; the other subdirectories should only be present if the application in question is included in the distribution."
Adding the /srv directory was suggested before, but it was never widely implemented. I guess that bug 187553, comment 1 still holds true. See also bug 78934.
There still isn't much interest in making Gentoo more FHS compliant I'm afraid... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78934 ***
I can understand nobody wants to support FHS-compliant locations (like /srv) in applications, but at least baselayout should create those dirs (/srv and /var/lib/misc). It shouldn't be so hard using dodir or keepdir or something similar, right? There are applications which rely upon the presence of /var/lib/misc (e.g. policykit), so IMHO it would be better to create at least that one in baselayout ebuild.
Let's see what our baselayout maintainers think about this.
There's a GLEP wrt to /srv and I think people are waiting for it to be implemented. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0020.html
nothing needs /srv/ and we arent about to force an empty directory on everyone for no reason as for /var/lib/misc/, we could create it, but that would be done in the bootmisc init.d script, not the ebuild. anything that goes in /var/lib/ has to recover at runtime from a `rm -rf /var/lib/*` and a reboot. as for the FHS itself, it has always been a *guideline*. we do not require strict conformance to it. yes, bug 187553, comment 1 still holds true.
Roy: care to add /var/lib/misc to the bootmisc script (alongside /var/log and such) ?
Fixed here http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc/changeset/fc6cdefedb0aa507bba3820b4853451baeba5bbb
thanks
