On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:21:35PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I've been trying to think how to correctly relocate $(LOCAL_RULES_DIR)
> relative to $(PREFIX) when building SA. The problem of course being that
> in the "normal" case, /etc is not relative to $Config{prefix}, which is
> the default value of $(PREFIX). This is particularly important when
> a non-root user is installing.
>
> Choices appear to be:
>
> (1) Change $(LOCAL_RULES_DIR) to always be $(PREFIX)/etc/spamassassin,
> giving up on using /etc/mail unless the installer edits Makefile.PL. I
> note that /usr/local/etc/spamassassin is already being searched before
> /etc/mail/spamassassin by the ordering of the @site_rules_path array, but
> there seems to be some feeling among sa-talk posters that /etc/mail is the
> "right" place to put this.
No. That is an awful idea.
Configuration files should ALWAYS be under /etc/. Failure to do so is a
violation of the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard).
> (3) Test e.g. EUID at the time Makefile is generated to decide whether to
> prepend $(PREFIX) to the path. This helps out the non-root installer, but
> has two drawbacks: root still can't usefully specify "make PREFIX=...",
> and "perl Makefile.PL" has to be run with the same EUID as "make install".
EUID is a bad idea. People don't make as root, people make install as root.
> Index: Makefile.PL
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/spamassassin/spamassassin/Makefile.PL,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -r1.24 Makefile.PL
> --- Makefile.PL 19 Feb 2002 20:17:41 -0000 1.24
> +++ Makefile.PL 14 Apr 2002 18:19:34 -0000
> @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
> my $DEF_RULES_DIR = '$(PREFIX)/share/spamassassin';
>
> my $LOCAL_RULES_DIR = '/etc/mail/spamassassin';
> + $LOCAL_RULES_DIR = '$(PREFIX)/etc/spamassassin'
> + unless ($Config{prefix} eq '/usr' && -w '/');
>
> my $MYCFLAGS = ''; # this is a good place to put -g etc.
>
What's wrong with
my $LOCAL_RULES_DIR = '$(PREFIX)/../etc/mail/spamassassin';
--
Duncan
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