Hi, On 2017-08-21, Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetw...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm working on adding installation of a polkit action file into > GParted's build and install system, however the polkit daemon only > recongises action files installed into the single location of > /usr/share/polkit-1/action/.
There is a section about this issue in the Automake manual[1]. > Currently the Makefile.am contains this line: > (larger fragment of the Makefile.am below) > polkit_actiondir = $(datadir)/polkit-1/actions [...] > Are there any resolutions to this? > I could: > 1) Leave things as they are and document it as the builders > responsibility, that when prefix defaults to /usr/local, or anything > other than /usr, that the polkit action file will need manually > installing into the correct location under a unique name so as not to > overright any distro package provided copy. It is pretty much fine as is. If it matters, the installer can specify polkit_actiondir when they install your package, for example: % make polkit_actiondir=/the/correct/location install Just include a note about it in your README. Things get a bit more complicated if you want the default install location to be something probed at configure time. This usually involves some heuristics to get a reasonable user experience. > 2) Set polkit_actiondir to /usr/share/polkit-1/action but that is > against automake guidance and breaks 'make distcheck'. This is generally a bad idea, as installing to hardcoded locations breaks many things. For example, it will prevent successful installation as an unpriviliged user (unless the user knows to override polkit_actiondir). > Are there any other solutions which are reasonable? Another option (which might not be acceptable for you) is to do nothing: i.e., don't install any files into the external location by default. The user can place files manually into the correct locations as required. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths Cheers, Nick
