Re: [PATCH 1/5] General configuration portability (Resend)

From: Gary V. Vaughan <git@mlists.thewrittenword.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2010, 06:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20100312062308.GI7877@thor.il.thewrittenword.com>
In-Reply-To: <1268326882-sup-9149@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>

Hi Ben,

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:01:51PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote:

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> Excerpts from Gary V. Vaughan's message of Thu Mar 11 11:27:50 -0500 2010:
> > -gitexecdir = libexec/git-core
> > +gitexecdir = libexec
> 
> You're proposing to change the execdir?

>From the OP:

  This patch is in part to deal with peculiarities of our build                 
  environment [[...]] Probably, much of this patch is useful upstream.

We install each package in it's own directory, and remove redundant directories as a local policy. So /opt/fsw/git17/libexec/git-core becomes /opt/fsw/git17/libexec.

My employer kindly agreed to donate a little of my paid time to push the git patches we require to build on our supported hosts back upstream. There is certainly some good stuff in here that is useful outside of our environment, but I have another 1600 packages to port too...

Cheers,
    Gary

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Gary V. Vaughan (gary@thewrittenword.com)