Official Icecast 2.1.0 documentation at http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.1.0/icecast2_basicsetup.html says: "After installation you should have and icecast binary and 3 directories: conf, admin, logs" (there is actually a table that cannot be reproduced into bugzilla) However, gentoo has 3 different directories: kestrel icecast # ls /usr/share/icecast/ admin doc web Therefore the official icecast 2.1.0 documentation cannot be used by user to make icecast work. It's necessary either to make gentoo installation comply to this guide, or patch the guide to reflect gentoo changes and distribute it with gentoo and place a notice on a place prominent enough that noone misses it and doesn't take the official guide instead of the patched gentoo, because he is going to run into confusion in such case. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 4 2005, 16:17:52)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tls truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
/etc/icecast2/ is perfectly valid place for configuration files. Logs should by default be placed into /var/log(/icecast) which is Bug 80990, feel free to submit patches there. As for the rest, file a bug upstream and ask the developers to make their package (and documentation) FHS-compliant[1] and not to place all files into /usr/share which is a mess... Marking this UPSTREAM as it is not Gentoo that is doing things improperly. [1]http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
