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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Philippe Gerum: copperplate: add
 configuration tunable for registry moint point
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
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On 01/02/2015 11:28 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-01-01 18:43, xenomai-git-request@xenomai.org wrote:
>> Module: xenomai-3
>> Branch: next
>> Commit: d351f712bc9b03d621b454b55fe3e46a0000294a
>> URL:    http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-3.git;a=commit;h=d351f712bc9b03d621b454b55fe3e46a0000294a
>>
>> Author: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
>> Date:   Thu Jan  1 18:15:36 2015 +0100
>>
>> copperplate: add configuration tunable for registry moint point
>>
>> --enable-registry[=/registry-mount-point]
>>
>> Defaults to /mnt/xenomai.
> 
> Do we really have to leave this as default? Then at least the debian
> rules must be fixed to use a FHS-conforming path for distributed packages.
> 

I don't care about which default is picked, really. I would agree with
both options equally, i.e. using /mnt or /var/run, since /mnt has been a
sensible and documented root for temporary mount points for ages in the
*nix world, although I find /var/run a reasonable choice for
non-persistent mount points as well.

However, there does not seem to be a consensus on this issue among other
maintainers, therefore I'm going for backward compatibility with early
x3 code some people have been running for two years now, keeping /mnt.

The patch I have issued allows to override this default using a
configuration switch, so that everyone can define this path statically
at build time.

If people eventually come to a consensus on a different but still
reasonable default value before the last -rc is released, I'll be glad
to merge it.

-- 
Philippe.