From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [PATCH] yet another package check (take 2) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:54:47 +0000 Message-ID: References: <45827DE4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45827DE4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jan Beulich , Ewan Mellor Cc: Christoph Egger , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 15/12/06 09:50, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > I can't generally see the value of 'installing' if all that means is just > copying. I'm > doing this with basically all other components I use non-distro versions of, > without > problems. Xen is the first one to cause me real headaches here. > > Also, the 'few hardcoded paths' seem to be scattered all around the various > tools, > so it doesn't look like a rather simple job to (a) spot them all and (b) fix > them. It's been pointed out that the check script is there for you to run from your own installation wrappers if you want to. Any change to default behaviour will require us to distinguish 'make dist' and 'make install' inside the tools directory. That's a 3.0.5 build-system issue imo. -- Keir