In the xorg-server-0.99.1_p20051013-r1.ebuild you find in the CONFIGURE_OPTIONS --sysconfdir=/etc/X11. The only file that is affected is XOrgCfg that should go in /etc/X11/app-defaults. However with the sysconfdir settings of the ebuild it will be installed into /etc/X11/X11/app-defaults (and wont be found by xorgcfg) as in the xorgcfg/Makefile it is defined to go to $(sysconfdir)/X11. equery f xorg-server x11-base/xorg-server-0.99.1_p20051013-r1 /etc /etc/X11 /etc/X11/X11 /etc/X11/X11/app-defaults /etc/X11/X11/app-defaults/XOrgCfg /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/X -> Xorg /usr/bin/Xdmx .... Removing the --sysconfdir line from the ebuild let it install properly in /etc/X11/app-defaults (as sysconfdir in configure is set to /etc). I know its at the moment not so important as modular xorgcfg seems not yet really ready. Just a reminder to remove the line in case of other/further changes to the ebuild. Thanks
Donnie, is there a reason to keep this line as it is?
Not if things work fine without.
app-defaults is now installed to /usr/lib/X11 regardless of sysconfdir, due to an upstream decision if I remember correctly... Do we want to patch the source so that it installs where the rest of the app-defaults are?
I see in the comments of the ebuild: # sysconfdir is used for the xorg.conf location So if you don't pass sysconfdir, then your xorg.conf won't get found.
Ehhe, missed that. Anyways, #3?
Well as far as app-defaults installing right, it's fixed in upstream CVS and in the current xorg-server version in portage so I don't see why we should patch an older version.
The reason I bring it up is that /usr/lib/X11 is where the current xorg-server version installs app-defaults, but many other apps install to /etc/X11/.
Then the other packages will have to get fixed.
Indeed, due to the last minute changes to the location of the app-defaults dir this bug is probably not valid anymore since most people won't install "older" xorg-server versions. Yesterday I built xorg-server three times, using the original ebuild with sysconfdir=/etc/X11, one with the setting sysconfdir=/etc and finally w/o sysconfdir setting at all. I did an ebuild xorg-server-0.99.2-r1 install. There were apperantly no differences. XOrgCfg, the file in question was found in all three variations in ...../image/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. None of these builds gave me a /etc directory within the image and no xorg.conf file was created with any of those ebuilds. So probably this bug can be closed with solution upstream?
(In reply to comment #7) > The reason I bring it up is that /usr/lib/X11 is where the current xorg-server > version installs app-defaults, but many other apps install to /etc/X11/. I found several ebuilds on my system installing to /etc/X11. Those related to modular X are xdm init and xfs (all newest versions). I could give you a complete list, but maybe you want to open a new bug for this? Most notably is this regard is groff, as it belongs to system and is probably installed before any x11-app. The groff ebuild does not install any file in app-defaults, but creates /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults as a symlink to /etc/X11/app-defaults. Therefore, in principal every gentoo user should have this symlink.
Yeah, a new bug would be good.
