[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] Bug#589230: lustre-utils: possible FHS violation, as mkfs.lustre is not in /sbin

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: lustre-utils
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.1.1

Hi.

I might have spotted a policy violation here (therefore the sevirity serious).

Policy section 9.1.1. specifies:
"The location of all installed files and directories must comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard (FHS), version 2.3, with the exceptions noted below,..."

The FHS in turn specifies:
"The following files, or symbolic links to files, must be in /sbin if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
...
fsck.*
mkfs.*
"
(see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SPECIFICOPTIONS8).


As far as I can tell this is not the case, right? 

I also do not see any exception for this in section 9.1.1.


I don't judge whether /sbin is really a better location,.... just wanted to bring this to your
attention :)


Cheers,
Chris.