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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:29:35 +0200
From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: is it best practice to use ${sysconfdir} rather than hard-coding "/etc"?
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 09:25:57AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>=20
>   i suspect i know the answer to this, but in the recipe file
> usbinit.bb, we have:
>=20
> do_install() {
>     install -d ${D}/etc
>     install -d ${D}/etc/init.d
>     install usb-gether ${D}/etc/init.d
> }
>=20
>   i'm guessing that would more properly be coded:
>=20
> do_install() {
>     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
>     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
>     install usb-gether ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
> }
>=20
>   the end result is functionally identical, of course, it's all just a
> matter of style.

using sysconfdir is better as someone can define it to different value
then 'etc' and the later will still work (be consistent across image)

Cheers,

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> rday
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