Hi Nick, On 21 August 2017 at 15:06, Nick Bowler <nbow...@draconx.ca> wrote: > > 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. > --8<-- trimmed --8<-- > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths
Thank you for your advice. I will stick with what I have and add a note in the README file as you suggest. I had read Automake Manual section 27.10 Installing to Hard-Coded Locations, but the examples installing files used by another package were querying python and emacs lisp so I didn't really understand how to apply them in my case with polkit not being a programming language and its fixed location. Thanks again, Mike
