Bug 307493 – net-analyzer/flow-tools-0.68.5 should use --sysconfdir=/etc/flow-tools

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcin Mirosław 2010-03-02 14:43:28 UTC]

Now files used by flow-tools are installed in two dirs ('cfg','sym') in /etc:
equery f flow-tools|grep /etc
/etc
/etc/cfg
/etc/cfg/filter.cfg
/etc/cfg/map.cfg
/etc/cfg/mask.cfg
/etc/cfg/stat.cfg
/etc/cfg/tag.cfg
/etc/cfg/xlate.cfg
/etc/conf.d
/etc/conf.d/flowcapture
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/flowcapture
/etc/sym
/etc/sym/asn.sym
/etc/sym/ip-prot.sym
/etc/sym/ip-type.sym
/etc/sym/tag.sym
/etc/sym/tcp-port.sym

Imho it would be more clear when all those dirs would be placed under /etc/flow-tools .

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-03-02 16:09:51 UTC]

That's odd. 0.68.5 appears to ignore the --localstatedir=/etc/flow-tools configure option.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-03-02 16:13:55 UTC]

Oh I see. It should use sysconfdir there. I wonder how that got mixed up. :)

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-03-02 16:52:45 UTC]

Thanks for reporting! It appears that the 0.68-r* ebuilds wrongly set --localstatedir=/etc/flow-tools (or maybe rightly so for the job at hand, but it's the wrong argument in autotools to use) instead of --sysconfdir=... Apparently that works for those ebuilds but not for 0.68.5. I have hopefully corrected this in 0.68.5-r1.

[Comment 4 Marcin Mirosław 2010-03-02 19:22:37 UTC]

Thank you for quick fix!