distributed nagios ?

[Allan Clark]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 03:46, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right.  In
>> our case, it made a lot more sense to change
>>
>>       cp apps/mon.py $root_path/usr/bin/mon
>>
>> to
>>
>>       cp apps/mon.py $bindir/mon
>>
>> otherwise it would put 'mon' in a really weird spot.
>>
>> I'm guessing these are design decisions on your part, but in case they're
>> not, I thought I'd point them out.
>>
>
> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
> I suppose it should.

I thought the convention was $DESTDIR , which is also used by
autotools, which is a fairly common tool in that domain.  I'd strongly
recommend marching to the same drummer when possible.

Allan
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