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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:49 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> 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.

Oh, so they do :-(

> 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 ?

It does seem likely :-/

I think at this point we should revert this change for now and I'll try
again with a bit more due diligence before pushing the change. Sorry
about this.

Ian.


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