On 11/16/2014 11:51 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > One installation directory choice I haven't found a good solution to is > the ntp.conf file, which is traditionally installed in /etc/ . If there > is an ntp.keys file, it will usually go in /etc/ as well. > > In general, folks want the config-related files to be in /etc/ even if > they install the binaries in /usr/local. > > While I'd like to use sysconfdir for this I'm concerned about the > hackery I'd need to do to make it work as we expect.
sysconfdir IS the solution you are looking for. A distro will run: ./configure prefix=/ sysconfdir=/etc and things will just work. > > I'm thinking about using ntpconfdir for this, but how to make that work > the way the other paths do hasn't been obvious to me from casual study. I don't see the point of adding a non-standard variable when the standard one already works as advertised. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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