> 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.
DOH! Right, sorry, I plead temporary insanity. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle