Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: revert to using /var and /etc/

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friday, January 25, 2013, 5:15:24 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 13:41 +0000, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> On 25/01/13 14:10, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > 26470:acaf29203cf9 "tools+stubdom: install under /usr/local by
>> > default" moved more stuff under /usr/local than was desirable.
>> > 
>> > In particular SYSCONFIG_DIR (configuration for initscripts) moved to
>> > /usr/local/etc/{sysconfig,defaults} while the initscripts themselves
>> > (correctly) remained in /etc/init.d. Moving /etc/xen/scripts breaks
>> > the udev bakcned rules file. Lastly stuff under /var was moved to
>> > /usr/local/var.
>> > 
>> > Move these back to /etc/ and /var. Moving /etc wholesale rather thsn
>> > just the problematic bits is preferable for consistency.
>> > 
>> > Although there seems to be some disagreement about /usr/local/var vs
>> > /var using /var is compatible with the FHS and what we think most
>> > people will expect.
>> > 
>> > Most of this impacts Linux only but NetBSD appears to have been using
>> > /usr/local/var/lib which I have also reset to /var/lib.
>> > 
>> > Note that we already paid no attention to autoconf --sysconfdir or
>> > --localstatedir ('etc' and 'var' respectively) so there is no change
>> > from that PoV.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx?
>> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Applied, thanks.

Hmm all the initscripts and the SYSCONFIG_DIR scripts still have hardcoded 
paths to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin in them.
Changed them by hand for the moment, but still no succes booting.
Perhaps there are some more places where paths are hardcoded and not derived 
from the result of ./configure ?

--

Sander


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