[MM3-users] Re: Issues with starting mailman 3 outside of a virtualenv

On Aug 15, 2017, at 19:59, Abhilash Raj <maxking@asynchronous.in> wrote:

@Barry: Is is wrong for the [paths.fhs] to set the bin_dir? No other paths configuration does this.

All the other path configs calculate their bin_dir based on sys.executable. In config.py:

    default_bin_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.executable))
…
substitutions = dict(
    …
    argv=default_bin_dir,

and from schema.cfg:

# This is the directory containing the Mailman 'runner' and 'master' commands # if set to the string '$argv', it will be taken as the directory containing # the 'mailman' command. bin_dir: $argv

However, I think for paths.fhs, it is correct to hardcode bin_dir to /sbin (although perhaps it should be /usr/sbin now).

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

paths.fhs very specifically expects things to be laid out according to the FHS.

-Barry