Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 6:20:09 PM, you wrote:

> At 17:12 +0000 on 26 Feb (1361898743), Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Tim Deegan writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb"):
>> > Speaking as its author, I know what the objective is: to unpack what
>> > 'make install' would do, and remove it again afterwards.  The fact that
>> > it uses a .deb package for that is unfortunate, because it leads people
>> > to think of it as a packaged Xen.  Perhaps I ought to have rolled my own
>> > manifest for uninstalling.
>> 
>> I think we should fix this problem by improving the documentation.
>> 
>> From a technical point of view, a .deb is definitely the right thing.
>> 
>> And I do think that there is a plausible argument that the config
>> files ought not to be just blatted over the top of your system.  (If
>> "make install" does that then there's the same argument there - I
>> don't think "make install" should trash existing config.)

> AFAIK 'make install' does; certainly some room for improvement in that
> are.  In 'make deb' treating config files as normal data is deliberate.
> I don't want remnants of old tests contaminating my new install - that
> was the whole point.

Would a option to ./configure to enable/disable the install of config and 
initfiles on make install (or a seperate build target for config files) make 
sense ?

--
Sander


> Tim.




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