Re: [lfs-dev] Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

On Monday, December 8th, 2025 at 23:49, lfs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sunday, December 7th, 2025 at 21:35, Bruce Dubbs [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > We have referenced the FHS in LFS for a long time. We currently reference (LFS
> > Preface - LFS and Standards) and try to follow
> > https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html, but that is 10 years old.
> > 
> > There is a new effort at https://specifications.freedesktop.org/fhs/latest/ to update
> > the standard. I'm not sure if this is a final product or a work in progress because
> > both say the version is 3.0.
> > 
> > I anyone is interested it would be useful to note any changes and see if any updates
> > affect LFS or BLFS.
> > 
> > -- Bruce
> 
> 
> Might be easier to look for any changes, by referencing the
> single page version of the FHS, as was:
> 
> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html
> 
> and the FreeDesktop's single-page version:
> 
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/fhs/latest-single/
> 
> 
> FWIW, the non-FreeDesktop FHS also has a plain text version
> 
> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.txt
> 
> whilst the FreeDesktop don't seem to have/host single-page
> plain text docs: bur maybe a "modern desktop" doesn't need
> them?
> 
> FWOW, most of the differences I could see from a 'links2 -dumo'
> of the two single page resources, would suggest that, barring
> some extra copyright and acknowledgement text in the FreeDesktop
> version, it's a verbatim copy of the actual content, with just
> a few bits of markup changed.
> 
> HTH


On closer inspection: not quite a verbatim copy, with different markup,
of FHS 3.0 content.

The "bugtracker" URI has changed, vis:

<    should be filed as bugs. The bugtracker is at http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org - use the category FHS.
---
>    should be filed as bugs. The bugtracker is at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/FHS/fhs-spec/-/issues (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/FHS/fhs-spec/-/issues)

but that does appear to be the sole "content change".

Would have been "nice" if the Freedesktop folk had made their version 3.0.1,
so that it did flag up that there was a change, but, hey ho.

Presumably, if the linuxfoundation.org bugtracker is no longer "monitored",
(which the Freedesktop folk don't make any statement about, so we're all in 
the dark as to whether they are the cannonical location now) then that would 
be a reason to alter the reference to the FHS in the Books, although I'd still 
suggest altering the Books to point to the single page rendering, or at least 
making mention of it.

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