Re: [PATCH] install config files

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32 at debian dot org>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:29:42PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday, September 19, 2011 14:45:53 Roland McGrath wrote:
> > This seems vaguely reasonable to me in the abstract.  But I wonder if it's
> > actually what anybody wants.  People doing package-system builds of glibc
> > are already handling the /etc files some way or other.  I would kind of
> > expect that they put files like nsswitch.conf into different packages
> > having to do with system configuration, rather than the glibc packages.
> 
> i'm not an expert at deb/rpm packaging, but it seems to me that Debian (and 
> friends) and Fedora (and friends) both install the files from glibc's source 
> tree, and do so in the main glibc pkg.
> 
> $ rpm -qf /etc/nsswitch.conf /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 
> glibc-2.14.90-4.x86_64
> glibc-2.14.90-4.x86_64
> 
> $ dpkg-query -S /etc/gai.conf /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 
> libc6: /etc/gai.conf
> libc6: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> 
> Gentoo certainly does it in the main pkg

>From the Debian point of view, we install some of the files in the main
libc package, some of them like nsswitch.conf as part of the base system
(as it can be modified by other packages). For us it doesn't hurt that
they are installed in "make install", as the build system does it in a
temporary directory and later select which files are installed or not
(as part of the process of selecting which file goes in which package).

> > Since the Debian/Ubuntu people use a fork and don't participate directly
> > here, I guess we won't hear from them.
> 
> maybe we can get Aurelien to pipe up.  he's submitted some good work in the 
> past.

It's true that we are using a fork (EGLIBC) for various reasons, but
given this fork follows the original, we still participate here and we
try to follow bugs / patches here when applicable.

Aurelien

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