Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] tools+stubdom: install under /usr/local by default.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 09:56 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On 05/02/13 17:19, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Now that the hotplug scripts have been fixed to remove hardcoded paths lets
> > try this again. From 26470:acaf29203cf9:
> > 
> >     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>
> > Cc: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. Since Ian J applied the precursor patch yesterday I have now
applied this.

Ian.


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