From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] automatically install correct initscript
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:36:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303193630.GA28198@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078188416.10733.44.camel@localhost>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:21:34PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote:
> * 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?
Sounds good to me, care to write a patch? :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 0:46 [patch] automatically install correct initscript Robert Love
2004-03-02 1:04 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-02 1:08 ` Robert Love
2004-03-02 1:14 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-02 1:23 ` Robert Love
2004-03-02 20:28 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 18:46 ` Chris Larson
2004-03-03 19:10 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 19:21 ` Chris Larson
2004-03-03 19:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
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