Re: Add vendor configuration directory installation

[Valentin Lefebvre]

Thanks for the cc to bug-standard email and sorry for my mistake.

Indeed, this reference is specific to systemd. Here is an other link
[1] that gives a better description of the configuration files movement
from /etc to /usr/etc. That will be the case for all atomic systems.

And thanks for your quick feedback.

[1] https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2019-12-05-usr-etc/

On Tue, 2023-02-07 at 15:40 -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> 
>    On 2023-02-06 08:30, Valentin Lefebvre wrote:
>    >      This patch add a new autoconf argument that allows
> installation
>    > into the vendor configuration directory (/usr/etc/). Some linux
>    > distribution now move system configuration files from /etc to
> /usr/etc.
>    > See this ref: [0]....
> 
>    > [0]https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html
> 
>    I don't see "/usr/etc" in [0]. What I see is /usr/share/etc, i.e.,
>    $(datarootdir)/etc. It's not clear why the latter name doesn't
> suffice 
>    for this need, as files in $(datarootdir) are also supplied by the
>    distro and are read-only.
> 
> Or even sysconfdir ("read-only single-machine data") (where it is set
> to /usr/share/etc or some other such thing).
> 
> This also seems very much specific to systemd based GNU/Linux systems
> ( https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html ).

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Best regards,
Valentin Lefebvre

Linux Distribution Engineer - packager
Member of System Boot and Init team
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH

56100 Lorient, France