Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, September 06, 2012 11:31:45 AM Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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

Ah.  Good to know.  Thanks.  I missed that when I was looking into it.

Scott K