On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:43:31AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Current packaging instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents > indicate that --sysconfdir should be set to "/etc". Should this perhaps be > changed to "/etc/defaults/etc", with the subsequent instruction that if your > package actually has anything in sysconfdir, it should conditionally copy it to > /etc if it doesn't already exist with a postinstall script[1]?
No. If you set --sysconfdir to something else than /etc, a big bunch of packages will search their config files in the wrong directory. Keep in mind, that the sysconfdir setting might get hardcoded into a tool on compile time. Better create a package script which moves the files from /etc to /etc/defaults/etc after calling `make install DESTDIR=...'. Or even do it by hand. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
