Re: question on packaging cfengine for Gentoo Linux

[Mark . Burgess]

On  7 Oct, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> We're in the process of overhauling our package for cfengine in Gentoo
> Linux.  The new package (ebuild in Gentoo terms) has been submitted by a
> user and it has one section that I'm not sure is correct.  Instead of
> keeping /usr/sbin/cf* and /var/cfengine/bin/cf* separate, it symlinks them
> with the following comment:
> 
>       # Link cfagent into the cfengine tree otherwise cfexecd won't
>       # find it. Most hosts cache their copy of the cfengine
>       # binaries here. This is the default search location for the
>       # binaries.
> 
>       ln -sf /usr/sbin/cf* /var/cfengine/bin/
> 
> From everything I've read in the manual, those directories are separate for
> a reason and thus, that symlink should probably be removed from the final
> ebuild.  Would it be more appropriate to copy /usr/bin/cf* to
> /var/cfengine/bin/?
> 
> --kurt

Yes, that would be more appropriate. Also note that version 2.1.0
will be released at the end of the month. I recommend waiting for that,

Mark

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