From: Chris Larson <kergoth@handhelds.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] automatically install correct initscript
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:21:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303192134.GF12971@rikers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078188416.10733.44.camel@localhost>
* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:46:08PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote:
> > Speaking as a package and distribution maintainer and all around CM and
> > build guy, there are two problems I feel the need to point out. First,
> > you're installing into $(etcdir) directly. Bad, Bad, Bad. -always-
> > obey DESTDIR. -always-. Second, the distro I'm installing into isn't
> > necessarily the distro I'm building on. Any opposition to making the
> > tests obey DESTDIR as well?
>
> I already made this change in the 021 release.
Oh good, glad to hear it.
> As for the cross-distro install issue, do you have any suggestions?
Well, how about something as simple as using a makefile variable that
contains the name of the initscript to be installed, so that it can be
easily overridden by those building it?
--
Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Embedded Linux Developer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 0:46 [patch] automatically install correct initscript Robert Love
2004-03-02 1:04 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-02 1:08 ` Robert Love
2004-03-02 1:14 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-02 1:23 ` Robert Love
2004-03-02 20:28 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 18:46 ` Chris Larson
2004-03-03 19:10 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 19:21 ` Chris Larson [this message]
2004-03-03 19:36 ` Greg KH
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