[Asterisk-Dev] Install destination on Solaris

[Hans Fugal]

On 11/18/05, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:28:31PM -0800, Stephen Uhler wrote:
>
> > These are the "official" locations on Solaris, for a package named "asterisk".
> > This has been the standard (on Solaris) for at least a decade.  I believe
> > that Asterisk should comply with platform conventions where practical, and
> > this is one of those times.
>
> IMHO this is yet another reason to put it in /usr/local: so it won't
> collide with the official package, when such a package will finally be
> made.
>
> However note that on Linux asterisk does get installed to /usr and will
> happily "fight" with the copy from the package.

Which is exactly the reason we system administrators like to install
programs we install by hand (not with the packaging system) in
/usr/local.

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Hans Fugal
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