[ic] 5.7.2: /catalogs is evil
Jon Jensen
jon at endpoint.com
Tue Oct 27 19:29:19 UTC 2009
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Toni Mueller wrote:
> I'm playing around with a brand-new 5.7.2, and it creates /catalogs
> right there in the root of the file system. This breaks all FHS and
> other standards or conventions that I am aware of. I'd like to see a
> sane default value for this setting, like one of
>
> /var/lib/catalogs (Linux only?)
> /usr/local/share/catalogs
> /usr/local/libdata/catalogs
> /srv/interchange/catalogs (Linux only?)
> /home/interchange/catalogs
>
> Please...
Toni,
You must have run into some configuration-specific bug. It doesn't do that
for me, and defaults to ~/catalogs.
Can you give us more details about your operating system, Perl version,
and maybe a transcript of your make install & makecat runs in a pastebin
somewhere?
Thanks,
Jon
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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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