On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:21 PM Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello. > > We are working with a project that ships a blacklist file [1] that is > supposed to be installed to modprobe.d directory but it is not clear > what the default installation path should be. > > Distros will typically install modprobe config files to > /lib/modprobe.d but it is common to use /usr/local as the default > prefix [2] for manual `make` invocations. The manual page [3] does not > list /usr/local/lib/modprobe.d as a supported location though. > > In the past module-init-tools added [4] support for that path but that > repo appears to be abandoned and it does not look like kmod supports > it [5]. > > 1. Am I missing something, or was this an omission when porting > modprobe to kmod? > 2. Could the support be added? That is probably because we don't default prefix to /usr/local so people never actually needed it. Yes, I think we could add. Could you prepare a patch for that? > 3. Should we default to /lib or /etc for manual `make` invocations for > now? /lib is where packages should install and /etc is up to the system admin to set up. if we add /usr/local, then override order would be /etc, /usr/local/lib, /lib. Lucas De Marchi > > [1]: > https://github.com/medusalix/xow/blob/4aa49f27cb6fcb3da995da9e8d51167bed40f520/Makefile#L22 > [2]: > https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html#index-prefix > [3]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/modprobe.d.5.html > [4]: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.git/commit/?id=9454d710137be3799f343cc9d0f833f0802e2111 > [5]: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod.c?id=f5434cf5fc5b567359e1b9207bbab24c6782cfbd#n65 > > Cheers, > > Jan > -- Lucas De Marchi
