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At the time of this writing the distributions in question are CentOS/RHEL, and Debian/Ubuntu, since these are the only distributions we have packaging information for.

% ls ext/packaging
debian  redhat

Additionally, the refactors that I remember off-hand were largely around the log, tmp, and public directories.

• log should end up pointing to somewhere under /var/log
• tmp should end up pointing to the distribution appropriate temp location
• public should probably end up pointing to something under /var, since in production mode, Rails ends up writing files to there.

We can do a bit for FHS guidelines, but thus far for RHEL/EPEL/CentOS their really are not good guidelines for packaging rails applications, as rails kind of just puts stuff where it wants. I think debian does have redmine packaged so I might be able to look at that for some pointers. Certainly these packages can be improved, but I’m not sure we’ll get them to the point where they’d be accepted upstream as distro packages. Is that a goal?