[PATCH] Install config files

Allan McRae allan@archlinux.org
Mon Feb 24 11:28:00 GMT 2014


On 24/02/14 19:53, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > I find it quite iffy when `make install' in any source tree
>    > starts touching anything in SYSCONFDIR...
> 
>    If you are running make install without DESTDIR, you doing
>    something wrong anyway.
> 
> If I am setting up a chroot, copy my configurations files to
> DESTDIR/etc/nsswitch.conf, and then do `make install DESTDIR=...' then
> I should be able to assume that they have not been overwritten.
> `install-sysconf' is a nice compromise in this regard.
> 

Note that "make install" will not install nsswitch.conf because no
distribution actually ships that with their glibc package.   With the
patch it will install nscd.conf and gai.conf.

Allan



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