Change the path to the executable files in accordance with Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

[svalx]

FHS 2.3 prescribes to place these executables in subdirectories of /usr. SUSE rpm place it there too.

Index: mt-st-1.2/Makefile
===================================================================
--- mt-st-1.2.orig/Makefile
+++ mt-st-1.2/Makefile
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ CFLAGS?=  -Wall -O2
 SBINDIR= $(DESTDIR)/sbin
 BINDIR=  $(DESTDIR)/bin
 USRBINDIR= $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin
+USRSBINDIR= $(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin
 MANDIR= $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man

-MTDIR=$(BINDIR)
+MTDIR=$(USRBINDIR)
+STINITDIR=$(USRSBINDIR)

 PROGS=mt stinit

@@ -35,12 +37,12 @@ version.h: Makefile
        $(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<

 install: $(PROGS)
-       install -d $(MTDIR) $(MANDIR) $(SBINDIR)
+       install -d $(MTDIR) $(MANDIR) $(STINITDIR)
        install -s mt $(MTDIR)
        install -c -m 444 mt.1 $(MANDIR)/man1
        (if [ -f $(MANDIR)/man1/mt.1.gz ] ; then \
          rm -f $(MANDIR)/man1/mt.1.gz; gzip $(MANDIR)/man1/mt.1; fi)
-       install -s stinit $(SBINDIR)
+       install -s stinit $(STINITDIR)
        install -c -m 444 stinit.8 $(MANDIR)/man8
        (if [ -f $(MANDIR)/man8/stinit.8.gz ] ; then \
          rm -f $(MANDIR)/man8/stinit.8.gz; gzip $(MANDIR)/man8/stinit.8; fi)

[iustin]

This will get moot with the /usr unification, but until then, stinit is supposed to early run at boot time as tape devices are discovered, so I would say that /sbin is slightly better than /usr/sbin. Similarly, one can presume that mt is needed to restore /usr from tape, but in today's age that's even less probable.

I'll make a patch to allow customisation of this at install time.