From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: revert to using /var and /etc/ Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:41:52 +0100 Message-ID: <51028BA0.2020004@citrix.com> References: <1359119447-20967-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1359119447-20967-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@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: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 25/01/13 14:10, Ian Campbell wrote: > 26470:acaf29203cf9 "tools+stubdom: install under /usr/local by > default" moved more stuff under /usr/local than was desirable. > = > In particular SYSCONFIG_DIR (configuration for initscripts) moved to > /usr/local/etc/{sysconfig,defaults} while the initscripts themselves > (correctly) remained in /etc/init.d. Moving /etc/xen/scripts breaks > the udev bakcned rules file. Lastly stuff under /var was moved to > /usr/local/var. > = > Move these back to /etc/ and /var. Moving /etc wholesale rather thsn > just the problematic bits is preferable for consistency. > = > Although there seems to be some disagreement about /usr/local/var vs > /var using /var is compatible with the FHS and what we think most > people will expect. > = > Most of this impacts Linux only but NetBSD appears to have been using > /usr/local/var/lib which I have also reset to /var/lib. > = > Note that we already paid no attention to autoconf --sysconfdir or > --localstatedir ('etc' and 'var' respectively) so there is no change > from that PoV. > = > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell > Cc: Roger Pau Monne > Cc: Ian Jackson