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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggested changes to util-linux for FHS compliance.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:12:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b936be7a-15e8-575d-fb9b-8f57ad82803d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210219111427.35z43zib4jn5irkr@ws.net.home>

On 2/19/21 5:14 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:37:21AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Perhaps another solution would be to make the default for localstatedir be
>> /var instead of PREFIX/var.
> 
> Ah, I see what do you mean.
> 
> We do not alter $localstatedir in the configure script at all. This is is
> probably the problem you see. For the other directories we default to /bin,
> /lib, ... when the default prefix (NONE or /usr) detected.
> 
> It seems $localstatedir and $sysconfdir need our care too.
> 
> I have committed:
>   
>    https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/3d2899651791bcb4ee8fe4e605acc83f3ae3471b
> 
> Please, try it. The final summary from ./configure should be also
> more verbose about the paths now.

Thanks Karel.  Works for us.

   -- Bruce


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-19 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-12 17:04 Suggested changes to util-linux for FHS compliance Bruce Dubbs
2021-02-15  9:16 ` Karel Zak
2021-02-18 15:37   ` Bruce Dubbs
2021-02-19 11:14     ` Karel Zak
2021-02-19 17:12       ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2021-02-19 11:30   ` Karel Zak
2021-03-08 11:21     ` Karel Zak

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