Hey Guys, File seems to install its config files into /usr/share/file by default. The specific file I'm referring to are /usr/share/file/magic and /usr/share/file/magic.mime.
Here's what file's configure --help says: --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data [PREFIX/share] --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] The --sysconfdir switch doesn't do anything to our current build that I can see, but --datadir will move those files into /etc/file/. This seems to be what slackware does. Slackware builds with both the --sysconfdir=/etc and --datadir=/etc switches. I'm not sure what other distros do. There are two associated binary files that are also affected, however, /usr/share/file/magic.mgc and /usr/share/file/magic.mime.mgc. Slackware justs deletes them. In any case, I just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this. Is our current setup acceptable as is, or should we be looking at moving the config files to /etc? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
