Re: Trouble with RPM and %{_sysconfdir}.

["Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 gmail com>]

Thanks for all of your information about my original question.  I
still wonder about what I'm supposed to do to encourage the files to
end up in /etc rather than the /usr/etc.

I have completely stock, freshly installed FC6 systems, both i386 and
x86_64.  I'm tracking through the configuration files.

On a Centrino Intel Laptop running i686 32 bit kernel, I have:

$ cat /etc/rpm/platform
i686-redhat-linux

Maybe that's wrong?  Should anaconda have put "i686-linux" instead?

I see what you mean about the default settings in

/usr/lib/rpm/macros.  That has the "wrong thing" that is giving me bad RPMs:

%_sysconfdir            %{_prefix}/etc


In this file:

/usr/lib/rpm/i686-linux/macros,

I find the "right" thing

%_sysconfdir            /etc

Same for

/usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux/macros

%_sysconfdir            /etc

Is the "mistake" that my /etc/rpm/platform file has the word "redhat",
so it does not match exactly the name of the subdirectory in
/usr/lib/rpm ?

pj

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