On April 6, 2007 9:30:56 AM -0500 Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
People write spec files using macros, and then the macros on my system
do not generate packages that put files in the correct place. I
noticed this while packaging ggobi and WindowMaker, and probably in
other packages as well. WHen people have a statement in the files
section like
%config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}
the config files end up in the wrong place, in /usr/etc/WindowMaker or
/usr/etc/ggobi. The authors of those programs claim that the correct
place ought to be
/etc/WindowMaker or /etc/ggobi
and inside their programs, there scripts that have hard coded paths
that look for files in those places.
Yep. There are lots of spec files that incorrectly (arguably) use
%_sysconfdir instead of just /etc. I'm sure someone just went through
and said "hey change all the /etc's to %_sysconfdir's just for the heck
of it! because we loves macros!)
Until now, I've just had the habit of editing the spec file to cut out
the usage of %{_sysconfdir}, replacing it with /etc.
Even though my %_sysconfdir *is* /etc, I do this as well, for packages
where the defined location is actually /etc.
But it causes me
to wonder why I'm the only one apparently having this problem,
Your build system is misconfigured, as others have noted.
-frank
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