[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] oprofile: Change /root to /home/root

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Tue Jul 3 15:28:19 UTC 2012


On 07/02/2012 07:44 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Why is it putting "daemon setup information" in /root in the first
>> place?  Surely that should go in /etc or some such place.
>>
>> Also, the choice of where root's home directory goes is a distro
>> decision and, in the general case, it is not correct to say that "OE
>> uses /home/root".  Changing the hardcoded value from one thing to
>> another is probably not that much of an improvement overall.
>
> yes having ROOTHOME configurable is desirable but probably nothing as such
> exists AFAICT

Why do we use /home/root instead of /root? If we are having to patch 
multiple recipes to account for this, maybe we should default to /root?

Philip





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