File locations

[lorenzr]

It has been a long time since I last developed for a Unix shell.  (Current a DB application developer) (really tired of lame hardware firewalls).
My questions are for packages what would be the standard places for files on the file system.
My guesses are

• /usr/ for temporary files since this is a ram disk partition.

• /usr/pkgname/log for logfiles

• /usr/pkgname/tmp for temp files

• /var/ for permanent fiiles.

• /var/pkgname/ for shell scripts, additional php, inc, other runtime junk to be kept between reboots.

• /etc/ should be kept out of for packages??

[sullrich]

/usr/local/bin|sbin          <–- third party applications
/usr/local/etc/              <--- third party conf files
/etc                            <--- system conf files
/usr/local/pkg/              <--- pfSense CoreGUI files

Our package system basically bootstraps FreeBSD binary packages with a XML layer giving us the additional capabilities of pfSense such as the webConfigurator.

Have a look at http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=CoreGUI for more information.

[lorenzr]

Yes got the GUI and FreeBSD binaries concepts.  I was just looking at the other packages and noting the different locations. 
Thanks what I wanted.  I was asking about for a place to dump files downloaded from an URL then converted for use.