Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:56:37 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preferred place for system-wide config files Message-ID: <861vd7pyga.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF398D7.1040801@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Wed, 19 May 2010 08:52:55 %2B0100") References: <86hbm5yjjh.fsf@gmail.com> <20100518115611.GA45921@atarininja.org> <4BF28470.2050903@infracaninophile.co.uk> <86hbm5vycg.fsf@gmail.com> <20100518195725.GB48168@atarininja.org> <4BF2F6AD.3020709@FreeBSD.org> <20100518203610.GA50328@atarininja.org> <86d3wsub3u.fsf@gmail.com> <4BF31322.60208@FreeBSD.org> <86632kol3e.fsf@gmail.com> <4BF398D7.1040801@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> On 19/05/2010 24:18:13, Anonymous wrote:
>> This doesn't concern only portmaster. As I've mentioned previously
>> xorg-server, subversion and git don't install any config file (not even
>> in share/examples) but still look for it inside PREFIX not LOCALBASE.
>> In other words almost any GNU_CONFIGURE port that doesn't install config
>> files. I've yet to see someone modify SYSCONFDIR for such ports.
>
> Err... xorg-server looks in about half a dozen different likely places
> for a config file. Traditionally I've put it in /etc/X11 (which is
> wrong according to ports rules, but it works). You could put it in
> /usr/local/etc/X11 or /usr/local/lib/X11/ to be more hier(7) compliant,
> and it would work there too.
However, it doesn't look under LOCALBASE/etc/X11 and LOCALBASE/lib/X11.
>
> svn is even less predictable: the config files for each repo -- and
> there may be many repos -- live within the directory structure of the
> repo itself. Repos can be put just about anywhere within the filesystem.
>
We're talking about system-wide configuration
PREFIX/etc/subversion/config
It allows you to define site-specific defaults that affect all users and
all repos.
> No idea about git -- I guess it behaves much the same as svn.
PREFIX/etc/gitconfig
I'd add PREFIX/etc/mercurial/hgrc here, but its port uses PYDISTUTILS to
build itself. I'm not sure if it has smth similar to SYSCONFDIR, i.e.
AC_SUBST([sysconfdir], ['${prefix}/etc'])
that becomes default value for --sysconfdir for GNU_CONFIGURE scripts.
>
> Sometimes you just aren't going to be able to apply a simple heuristic
> to find a port's config files. It's all part of life's rich tapestry.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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