From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Jackson Subject: Re: [patch] Xen build - Debian vs Redhat layout patch options Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:29:59 +0100 Message-ID: <19602.17927.197275.274485@mariner.uk.xensource.com> References: <19599.43888.826450.690087@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <19600.39408.486631.15438@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Bruce Edge Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Bruce Edge writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] Xen build - Debian vs Redhat layout patch options"): > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It is better to provide hooks to allow distros we don't know about to > > do what they want. > > You don't think there's any advantage to grouping all the distro > directory dependencies in one place? No. I think there is a disadvantage to grouping these kind of configuration parameter settings by our idea of what distros there are and how they work. > I thought that would make it easy to see where new distro layouts > should be added. A distro we haven't heard of doesn't want to patch our makefiles to add themselves to a huge list, and we don't want a list of all the distros in the universe in our code. They just want to set the settings available to the values for their setup. > If not, then I'll just use these variables that can be tuned individually: > > SYSCONFIG_DIR_LEAF > SUBSYS_DIR_LEAF > INITD_DIR > > and put them all in Config.mk. That would be great, thanks. Ian.