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Re: Should --sysconfdir=/etc/defaults/etc/?


On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:43:31AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Current packaging instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents
> indicate that --sysconfdir should be set to "/etc".  Should this perhaps be
> changed to "/etc/defaults/etc", with the subsequent instruction that if your
> package actually has anything in sysconfdir, it should conditionally copy it to
> /etc if it doesn't already exist with a postinstall script[1]?

No.  If you set --sysconfdir to something else than /etc, a big bunch
of packages will search their config files in the wrong directory.
Keep in mind, that the sysconfdir setting might get hardcoded into
a tool on compile time.

Better create a package script which moves the files from /etc to
/etc/defaults/etc after calling `make install DESTDIR=...'.  Or even
do it by hand.

Corinna

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