From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iw PATCH] default install to $(PREFIX)/sbin
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:21:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC39383.9010109@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254316786-4670-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville wrote:
> The iw utility isn't generally useful to normal users, so move it to
> $(PREFIX)/sbin with other system management executables.
>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> As "suggested" by Johannes... :-)
>
> Makefile | 6 +++---
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index cb5fcc1..68bef4d 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> MAKEFLAGS += --no-print-directory
>
> PREFIX ?= /usr
> -BINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/bin
> +SBINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/sbin
> MANDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/share/man
> PKG_CONFIG ?= pkg-config
>
> @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ check:
>
> install: iw iw.8.gz
> @$(NQ) ' INST iw'
> - $(Q)$(MKDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
> - $(Q)$(INSTALL) -m 755 -t $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR) iw
> + $(Q)$(MKDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
> + $(Q)$(INSTALL) -m 755 -t $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR) iw
> @$(NQ) ' INST iw.8'
> $(Q)$(MKDIR) $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8/
> $(Q)$(INSTALL) -m 644 -t $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8/ iw.8.gz
FWIW Ubuntu wireless-tools drops rfkill in /sbin, where I think tools
that require root for changes should live.
rtg
--
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
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2009-09-30 13:19 [iw PATCH] default install to $(PREFIX)/sbin John W. Linville
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