Ubuntu puts binary files in /etc
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
A number of package place binary files into /etc:
/etc/ImageMagic
/etc/aliases.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 9, native byte-order)
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apparmor.
/etc/apt/
/etc/apt/
/etc/apt/
/etc/console-
/etc/console-
/etc/emacs23/
/etc/java-
/etc/java/
/etc/ld.so.cache: data
/etc/localtime: timezone data, version 2, 7 gmt time flags, 7 std time flags, no leap seconds, 242 transition times, 7 abbreviation chars
/etc/ssl/
The FHS doesn't make it entirely clear:
http://
... but having binary files such as these would cause issues were we to implement the following blueprint:
https:/
As a minimum, it appears from reading the FHS that ld.so.cache, localtime and aliases.db should not be in the top-level /etc/ directory, although I can see that moving these files may be problematic :)
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