Some Linux distros rely on having files in /etc (Debian, et al.), others in *not* having them in such directory (like Arch Linux). Fact is that the former distros have no issues in installing files elsewhere, whereas Arch has issues in installing files on /etc, specially if such files are present there when user try to reinstall the packages - it fails. Arch packaging doesn't try to be smart as dpkg for example (that compares config files to determine if user changed that).
With all of that said, this patch moves the sample conf file to /usr/share, a move that is well-tolerated in all distros and shouldn't cause regressions in packaging. Also, if some Linux distribution likes the idea of adding files in /etc, they can tune it in their packaging configuration scripts for makedumpfile, but we shouldn't have that as default in the Makefile. Notice that this patch intentionally skips the change for the .spec file, which aims specific distros, by creating RPM packages. Cc: Coiby Xu <[email protected]> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <[email protected]> Cc: Leonidas Spyropoulos <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <[email protected]> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index cc6b0120aa7d..014be8110836 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -130,6 +130,6 @@ install: install -m 755 -t ${DESTDIR}/usr/sbin makedumpfile $(VPATH)makedumpfile-R.pl install -m 644 -t ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man8 makedumpfile.8 install -m 644 -t ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man5 makedumpfile.conf.5 - install -m 644 -D $(VPATH)makedumpfile.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/makedumpfile.conf.sample mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/makedumpfile-${VERSION}/eppic_scripts + install -m 644 -D $(VPATH)makedumpfile.conf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/makedumpfile-${VERSION}/makedumpfile.conf.sample install -m 644 -t ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/makedumpfile-${VERSION}/eppic_scripts/ $(VPATH)eppic_scripts/* -- 2.36.0 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
