Yo Hal! On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:15:13 -0800 Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> devel@ntpsec.org said:
> >> Why would we want to do a distro install?
> > Because it makes life easier for overworked upstream packagers.
> > By a "distro install" I mean one to rootspace (normally /usr)
> > rather than /usr/local.
>
> How does that help anybody package things up?
>
> Do they have tools that extract new stuff from /usr/ and turn it into
> a package? Does that also get things like /etc/ntp.conf?
Right, AFAIK, only Gentoo acutally builds into the final destination. All
other distros build the binaries to a safe location, then pack them into
a binary package.
RGDS
GARY
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