Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:52:55 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> 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: <4BF398D7.1040801@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <86632kol3e.fsf@gmail.com> 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>
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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.
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.
No idea about git -- I guess it behaves much the same as svn.
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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