On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:10:56 -0700 Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:40:57PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Alex Netes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +dnl Where to place opensm.pid > > > +piddir=/var/run > > > > FWIW the future seems to be /run instead of /var/run, eg > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-March/150031.html > > > > Not sure what the best way to handle this in a way that doesn't cause > > hassles for packagers is. > > Donno, I find it still unclear if /run is just for early boot stuff > that might start prior to /var being mounted or a general replacement > for all /run directories - I think it is the just for early boot > stuff, and /var/run will bind mount/symlink to it (maybe forever?)? > > In any event, it is the packager's responsibility to understand details > like this for their distribution.. It seems like the right thing to do would be to use an autoconf variable like "localstatedir". But every reference I find seems to indicate it is not automatic to say the least... http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2003-June/017720.html http://openbsd.monkey.org/ports/200001/msg00065.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/ac/msg04439.html http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=262824 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702769 :-( Ira > > Jason -- Ira Weiny Math Programmer/Computer Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Lab 925-423-8008 [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
