From: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ebtables-2.0.9-2: build fixes
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:21:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9F69D4.2030709@pandora.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1003161141460.27631@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> - Not all distros use the sysvinit package anymore (e.g. Ubuntu uses
>> upstart). In arptables I made the copying to INITDIR and SYSCONFIGDIR
>> dependent on the existence of the directories. That way we don't copy
>> the sysvinit type of files on a system that uses something else. I'd
>> prefer to do the same thing with ebtables. Does that sound ok to you?
>
> That sounds wrong to me. Chroots building software may have fewer
> directories than the Makefiles expect, so it's best not to install
> too few files. Deleting files in buildscripts is easier on the mind
> than postinstalling them.
I don't want to install these files on a non-sysvinit system. Enabling
the copying when DESTDIR exists and differs from / is OK for me.
cheers,
Bart
--
Bart De Schuymer
www.artinalgorithms.be
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-16 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-16 7:52 ebtables-2.0.9-2: build fixes Peter Volkov
2010-03-16 10:31 ` Bart De Schuymer
2010-03-16 10:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-16 11:21 ` Bart De Schuymer [this message]
2010-03-16 13:03 ` Bart De Schuymer
2010-03-16 13:12 ` Bart De Schuymer
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