The premise of this question is flawed. Debian is a downstream. So are all distributions. CouchDB is designed, first and foremost, to package itself from source. That's why we create these directories for the user. Please also note that they are only created during "make install" and they do not exist in our source.
On 13 November 2012 00:43, Randall Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 13, 2012, at 00:15 , Paul J Davis <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config > > chain seems wrong. > > > > +1 on definite decisions, and +1 on keeping things as is. > > > > The functionality is to pass a config directory via the command line with > the -A switch. > > It would be the sort of thing where the debian package would have > COUCHDB_OPTIONS="-A /etc/couchdb/default.d -A /etc/couchdb/local.d" in > /etc/default/couchdb. On RHEL it would be /etc/sysconfig/couchdb. > > The change would be that running the couchdb start script by hand (not > using the init script) would probably no longer assume the existence of > these directories nor pass the equivalent switch implicitly. > > Again, I'm +0, but just wanted to make sure we were clear on what's going > on. The "-A" flag is not in question. Only the implicit -A on these two > directories and the presence of these (empty) directories in our source > tree. > -- NS
