Re: db conflict ?

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:18:20PM -0400, Howard Holm wrote:
> things in /usr/local/.  Perhaps we can add an environment variable for the
> "prefix" that will default to /usr/local/ but can be set to /usr by
> package maintainers.  I really think the right answer for policy source is
> in /usr/share which by FHS standards should be sharable between
> architectures (and I believe the policy source should be.)  Of course, the
> policy binary has to be on the root partition for booting purposes, but
> I think it's best if for machines that are sharing /usr within an
> architecture and /usr/share between architectures, we let them put policy
> source in /usr/share/.  I can't envision a situation where you would
> need to recompile policy on a system too crippled to mount /usr/share/.

I was playing around with this over Christmas but got swamped with
other things. What you want is for your build script to use "prefix" so
package maintainers can build using:

	configure prefix=/

If you let the default be /usr/local/, then anyone who builds direct
will install to /usr/local.

The problem I ran across was that the various selinux utils have
all sorts of different vars for configure; and also to do it right
you often need to regen the configure script from configure.in.
Some of the utils use just Makefile; others use configure/automake.
It's a real mess.




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