[Devel] Re: [RFC] vzctl 'make install' target

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Fri Jun 30 15:50:47 PDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:00:28PM +0200, Christian Heim wrote:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:03, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> >We want to fix it in next vzctl release. There are several solutions
> >possible:
> >
> >(1) rename 'install' target to install-redhat, and add generic 'install'
> >target which will not install initscript and
> >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*venet0* stuff
> >
> >(2) leave install target as is and add 'install-generic' target which
> >will do the same as 'install' from (1)
> >
> >(3) try to determine distro during runtime, from Makefile itself, and
> >act appropriately
> >
> >(4) Pass some params to Makefile in environment, like SKIP_NETSCRIPTS or
> >SKIP_INITSCRIPT
> >
> >(5) a variation of (1) -- add install-generic and install-redhat target,
> >do nothing but print a list of possible install-* target on invocation
> >of 'make install'.
> >
> >I prefer #5. What do people think? I am especially interested in hearing
> >from Debian and Gentoo maintainers.
> 
> Well, we don't prefer any specific, so #1, #2 or #5 would be fine with us. 

Likewise.  My advice is to avoid #3.

> It's after all _your_ package ;)

It sounds like "do whatever you want, we'll patch our package anyway" :)


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