Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] tools: install under /usr/local by default.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 15:19 +0000, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> On 18/01/13 15:25, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > This is the defacto (or FHS mandated?) standard location for software
> > built from source, in order to avoid clashing with packaged software
> > which is installed under /usr/bin etc.
> > 
> > I think there is benefit in having Xen's install behave more like the
> > majority of other OSS software out there.
> > 
> > The major downside here is in the transition from 4.2 to 4.3 where
> > people who have built from source will innevitably discover breakage
> > because 4.3 no longer overwrites stuff in /usr like it used to so they
> > pickup old stale bits from /usr instead of new stuff from /usr/local.
> > 
> > Packages will use ./configure --prefix=/usr or whatever helper macro
> > their package manager gives them. I have confirmed that doing this
> > results in the same list of installed files as before this patch was
> > applied.
> > 
> > Note that this does not currently affect docs or stubdoms at the
> > moment, so they still end up under /usr. There are proposals to use
> > configure here too at which point I would propose a similar patch and
> > these would also move as expected (depending on the sequencing I may
> > end folding that into this patch)
> 
> I think the above paragraph is no longer true, you are modifying
> stubdoms configure to use the default prefix. Also the subject should be
> updated to "tools/stubdom:" or a similar prefix.

Yes, I copied this blurb from the ML archives of the previous post into
my 0/N, edited it, realised it was also in my 1/N and cut the stuff from
0/N but then forgot to come back here and change this version. Doh!

I've just nuked this para from my local tree.

> > The hypervisor remains in /boot/ and there is no intention to move it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Apart from the above comment, the code itself looks right, so:
> 
> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.



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