On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com> wrote:
> Yo John! > > .... > > Sort of conflicting. Only distros are allowed to install into /usr. > User installed stuff is supposed to go in /usr/local/ > > So it the package come from NTPSec, it has to go in /usr/local. But > when a distro repackages it they have to put it in /usr/ OK. Will package for /usr/local, and (try to) document how that could be changed for the various distro's packaging teams. > > and using the /etc/alternatives symlink trick to > > pick out the 'right' version. And of course having an uninstall > > script which backs it all out, and undoes the symlink indirection. > > /etc/alternatives is totally non-standard. Better to replace the old > versions in /usr with links to /usr/local/. Or, maybe instead a script > to hunt out older ntpd's. A lot of programs do this, you find out when > your install is taking forever and the installer is searching all your > NFS shares. :-( I must have confabulated this with what I've observed on a Debian- based distro (e.g., Ubuntu, which is what I run on my main laptop). Sorry about that. I think I'll have the installer check for existing version(s) in /usr/sbin and /usr/local, somehow preserve it (tarball in /usr/local/ntp/old_version ?) and put symlinks in /usr/*bin to point to the stuff in /usr/local. Let me think about this some more. Before I publish a final RPM, I'll solicit more feedback from you all. - *John D. Bell*
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