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From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] oprofile: Change /root to /home/root
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:28:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF30F93.6030706@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1sp2RfBJEggBUzkR9xdQ9L5Q_ik3Za2hCFf=3cJDCkqrEg@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/02/2012 07:44 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Why is it putting "daemon setup information" in /root in the first
>> place?  Surely that should go in /etc or some such place.
>>
>> Also, the choice of where root's home directory goes is a distro
>> decision and, in the general case, it is not correct to say that "OE
>> uses /home/root".  Changing the hardcoded value from one thing to
>> another is probably not that much of an improvement overall.
>
> yes having ROOTHOME configurable is desirable but probably nothing as such
> exists AFAICT

Why do we use /home/root instead of /root? If we are having to patch 
multiple recipes to account for this, maybe we should default to /root?

Philip




  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02 19:25 [PATCH 0/1] Update oprofile to know about OE root home directory Mark Hatle
2012-07-02 19:25 ` [PATCH 1/1] oprofile: Change /root to /home/root Mark Hatle
2012-07-02 20:06   ` Phil Blundell
2012-07-02 20:31     ` Mark Hatle
2012-07-02 23:44     ` Khem Raj
2012-07-03 15:28       ` Philip Balister [this message]
2012-07-03 16:30         ` Mark Hatle
2012-07-03 16:45           ` Saul Wold
2012-07-03 16:55             ` Mark Hatle
2012-07-05 17:44 ` [PATCH 0/1] Update oprofile to know about OE root home directory Saul Wold

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