users being able to use /opt/bin/

It is confusing for the system admin. to properly setup the user's
environment to use packages installed in /opt/.  The reason there is
setup work for the system admin. is that the FHS and LSB does not allow
a package to write to /opt/bin/, because it might corrupt the system. 
This chore is left for the system admin. to properly setup applications
with links in /opt/bin/.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/pack-ex.html

I would like to suggest that we provide "setup-opt.sh" to  symbolically
links a binary, library, or man page from an
/opt/{package,provider}/{bin,lib,man} to /opt/{bin,lib,man}
respectively.  To also create directories /opt/bin/, /opt/lib/, and
/opt/man/ when needed and appropriately update the system PATH and
MANPATH.  For example:

	# setup-opt.sh -b /opt/cisco/bin/acu

Attached is a proto-type.  Your feedback is welcomed.  Is this something
worth placing in the LSB book?

#!/bin/sh 
# 
# Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.  
# George Kraft <[email protected]> 
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# 
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  
# 02111-1307, USA.
# 
# 

OPTBIN=/opt/bin
OPTLIB=/opt/lib
OPTMAN=/opt/man
PROFILE=/etc/profile
MANCFG=/etc/man.config
LDCFG=/etc/ld.so.conf
TMP=/tmp/t$$

#############################################################################
# usage
#############################################################################

usage() {
	printf "$0 [-b /opt/dir/bin/executable]"
	printf " [-l /opt/dir/lib/library]"
	printf " [-m /opt/dir/man/page]\n"
}

#############################################################################
# make_dir
#############################################################################

make_dir() {

	if [ ! -d $1 ]; then
		mkdir $1 || exit
	fi
}

#############################################################################
# add_bin
#############################################################################

add_bin() {

	if [ ! -x "$opt_b_arg" ]; then
		printf "Executable binary required: $opt_b_arg\n"
		usage
		exit 2
	fi

	make_dir $OPTBIN

	grep $OPTBIN $PROFILE > /dev/null 2>&1

	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

		sed -e "s/\(^unset pathmunge\)/pathmunge \/opt\/bin\n\1/" $PROFILE >
$TMP

		if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
			cp $TMP $PROFILE
		fi

		rm -f $TMP
	fi

	ln -fs $opt_b_arg $OPTBIN
}

#############################################################################
# add_lib
#############################################################################

add_lib() {

	if [ ! -x "$opt_l_arg" ]; then
		printf "Readable library required: $opt_l_arg\n"
		usage
		exit 3
	fi

	make_dir $OPTLIB

	grep $OPTLIB $LDCFG > /dev/null 2>&1

	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
		echo $OPTLIB >> $LDCFG
	fi

	ln -fs $opt_l_arg $OPTLIB
}

#############################################################################
# add_man
#############################################################################

add_man() {

	if [ ! -x "$opt_m_arg" ]; then
		printf "Readable man page required: $opt_m_arg\n"
		usage
		exit 4
	fi

	make_dir $OPTMAN

	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

		sed -e "s/\(^MANPATH \/usr\/man\)/\1\nMANPATH $OPTMAN/" $MANCFG > $TMP

		if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
			cp $TMP $MANCFG
		fi

		rm -f $TMP
	fi

	ln -fs $opt_m_arg $OPTMAN
}

#############################################################################
# setup-opt
#############################################################################

while getopts  "b:l:m:h" opt ; do
	case $opt in
		b)
			opt_b="add_bin"
			opt_b_arg=$OPTARG
			break;;
		l)
			opt_l="add_lib"
			opt_l_arg=$OPTARG
			break;;
		m)
			opt_m="add_man"
			opt_m_arg=$OPTARG
			break;;
		*|h)
			usage
			exit 1
	esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND -1))

$opt_b
$opt_l
$opt_m

#EOF



-- 
George (gk4)