From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Larson Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:21:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] automatically install correct initscript Message-Id: <20040303192134.GF12971@rikers.org> List-Id: References: <1078188416.10733.44.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1078188416.10733.44.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org * Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:46:08PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote: > > Speaking as a package and distribution maintainer and all around CM and > > build guy, there are two problems I feel the need to point out. First, > > you're installing into $(etcdir) directly. Bad, Bad, Bad. -always- > > obey DESTDIR. -always-. Second, the distro I'm installing into isn't > > necessarily the distro I'm building on. Any opposition to making the > > tests obey DESTDIR as well? > > I already made this change in the 021 release. Oh good, glad to hear it. > As for the cross-distro install issue, do you have any suggestions? Well, how about something as simple as using a makefile variable that contains the name of the initscript to be installed, so that it can be easily overridden by those building it? -- Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org Embedded Linux Developer - clarson at ti dot com OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel