Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2 1/5] tools+stubdom: install under /usr/local by default.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 09:33 +0000, 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.
> 
> The hypervisor remains in /boot/ and there is no intention to move it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied this one, can someone ack 2,3 and 5 please...



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