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Subject: Re: is it best practice to use ${sysconfdir} rather than hard-coding "/etc"?
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Martin Jansa wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 09:25:57AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   i suspect i know the answer to this, but in the recipe file
> > usbinit.bb, we have:
> >
> > do_install() {
> >     install -d ${D}/etc
> >     install -d ${D}/etc/init.d
> >     install usb-gether ${D}/etc/init.d
> > }
> >
> >   i'm guessing that would more properly be coded:
> >
> > do_install() {
> >     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}
> >     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
> >     install usb-gether ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
> > }
> >
> >   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)

  there are definitely a number of examples of hard-coded "/etc" in
the recipes, but i'm not about to run around cleaning them -- i just
wanted to make sure there was no compelling reason to do that
hard-coding.  thanks.

rday

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