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From: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, glperkins@lit.edu
Subject: [PATCH] hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 20:07:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33544f6a-5983-ed08-b2f1-a7a348c411f6@deloquencia.de> (raw)

Adding description of new directories (/run, /usr/libexec,
/usr/share/color,/usr/share/ppd, /var/lib/color), stating
/usr/X11R6 as obsolete and updating URL to and version of
FHS.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206693

Reported-by: Gary Perkins <glperkins@lit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Piekarski <t.piekarski@deloquencia.de>

---

man7/hier.7 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/hier.7 b/man7/hier.7
index dab9483d7..03fe61c71 100644
--- a/man7/hier.7
+++ b/man7/hier.7
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ This pseudo-filesystem is described in more detail in
  .I /root
  This directory is usually the home directory for the root user (optional).
  .TP
+.I /run
+This directory contains information which describes the system since it 
was booted.
+Once this purpose was served by
+.IR /var/run
+and programs may continue to use it.
+.TP
  .I /sbin
  Like
  .IR /bin ,
@@ -186,7 +192,7 @@ It should hold only shareable, read-only data, so 
that it can be mounted
  by various machines running Linux.
  .TP
  .I /usr/X11R6
-The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (optional).
+The X\-Window system, version 11 release 6 (obsolete since FHS 3.0).
  .TP
  .I /usr/X11R6/bin
  Binaries which belong to the X\-Window system; often, there is a
@@ -296,6 +302,10 @@ which usually are not invoked directly.
  More complicated programs may
  have whole subdirectories there.
  .TP
+.I /usr/libexec
+Directory contains binaries for internal use only and they are not meant
+to be executed directly by users shell or scripts.
+.TP
  .I /usr/lib<qual>
  These directories are variants of
  .I /usr/lib
@@ -385,6 +395,10 @@ or
  or
  .IR /usr/man .
  .TP
+.I /usr/share/color
+Contains color management information, like International Color 
Consortium (ICC)
+Color profiles (optional).
+.TP
  .I /usr/share/dict
  Contains the word lists used by spell checkers (optional).
  .TP
@@ -421,6 +435,9 @@ same OS.
  .I /usr/share/nls
  The message catalogs for native language support go here (optional).
  .TP
+.I /usr/share/ppd
+Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files (optional).
+.TP
  .I /usr/share/sgml
  Files for SGML (optional).
  .TP
@@ -523,6 +540,9 @@ Variable game data (optional).
  .I /var/lib
  Variable state information for programs.
  .TP
+.I /var/lib/color
+Variable files containing color management information (optional).
+.TP
  .I /var/lib/hwclock
  State directory for hwclock (optional).
  .TP
@@ -635,11 +655,11 @@ this directory holds temporary files stored for an 
unspecified duration.
  Database files for NIS,
  formerly known as the Sun Yellow Pages (YP).
  .SH CONFORMING TO
-The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.3
-.UR http://www.pathname.com\:/fhs/
+The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), Version 3.0, published March 
19, 2015
+.UR https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml
  .UE .
  .SH BUGS
-This list is not exhaustive; different systems may be configured
+This list is not exhaustive; different distributions and systems may be 
configured
  differently.
  .SH SEE ALSO
  .BR find (1),
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-18 18:07 Thomas Piekarski [this message]
2020-05-19  9:50 ` [PATCH] hier.7: Updating from FHS 2.3 to 3.0 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-19 12:24   ` Thomas Piekarski
2020-05-19 12:40     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-19 12:53       ` Thomas Piekarski
2020-05-19 12:55         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-19 15:34           ` [PATCH-v2] " Thomas Piekarski
2020-05-19 19:51             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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