From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tools: add configure --with-dumpdir=DIR option Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:17:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20150511141726.GB14629@aepfle.de> References: <1430896124-604-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <20150507080144.GA28443@zion.uk.xensource.com> <20150507081051.GA18798@aepfle.de> <1430990570.2660.337.camel@citrix.com> <20150508065412.GC4342@aepfle.de> <1431077862.2660.416.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1431077862.2660.416.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Ian Jackson , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, May 08, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 08:54 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Thu, May 07, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 10:10 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > Does anyone actually use the non-FHS compliant current default > > > of /var/xen/dump? Should we consider switching it to something more > > > standard? Perhaps having done so making it configurable wouldn't be > > > useful any more (although I'd be happy with it being so if desired). > > Changing the default would work as well I think. Right now the path is > > hardcoded. Should I adjust the patch to honour --localstatedir= or leave > > the hardcoded path in the source? > > I don't mind really, but since you've already got the code for the > former we may as well keep it but just change the default. Ok, so I will resend with the new configure knob, change the default to be /var/lib/xen/dump and adjust the docs to refer to the new default. Olaf