Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Thu Sep 6 18:31:45 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 01:38:09PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> You'll need to be at least somewhat careful about FHS reservations in /opt.  
> /etc/opt is defined and subdirectories in it can be used, but directories such 
> as /opt/bin, /opt/lib, and /opt/man cannot.  Also, it's probably worth 
> mentioning that last I checked, extras.ubuntu.com was not LANANA registered.  
> Someone should do that.

  "Alternatives: Instead of applying for an LSB Provider Name, it is also
  possible to use your fully qualified Internet domain name (FQDN in lower
  case) to prefix your package and script names as described in the Software
  Installation and System Initialization chapters of the LSB Core
  specification."

http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/providers/index.html

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