Re: [PATCH for-xen-4.5] tools/hotplug: use configure --sysconfdir result

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 06:23:46PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 06:06:57PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > > What happens if we do not take that in now but delay to Xen 4.6?
> > > 
> > > I will be very unhappy...
> > > I mean, what exactly is the concern here?!
> > 
> > I need to know what the risk is if this does not go in. We
> > are at RC2 and I really want to make the amount of patches
> > that go in be a trickle.
> 
> Its risk free.
> 
> > > > Will systemd still correctly work? It looks like it will and 
> > > > this is just an improvement that makes the code be more streamlined.
> > > > 
> > > > It does not fix a bug (at least that is what I see from
> > > > reading), I believe this should be deferred to Xen 4.6.
> > > 
> > > It does fix a bug. If the whole thing was configured with --prefix=X
> > > --sysconfdir=Y parts of it will still refer to hardcoded paths entirely
> > > unrelated to what was just installed with 'make install'.
> > 
> > How often does that happen? Do the two paths that are specified
> > in the code cover 99% of the use-cases?
> 
> It covers 100% of the use cases. Just today someone complained on
> xen-users that stuff isnt appearing below /usr/local (not sure why, not
> our fault), but even if it was there it wouldnt be used because the code
> hardcodes /etc.

Excellent.

Release-Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 
> Olaf