Re: [Freeipmi-devel] one major bug, several minor issues

[Anand Babu]

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| Hey everyone,
| 
| 1) One major bug.  Files in:
| 
| /var/lock/*
| 
| are commonly removed on boot.  So /var/lock/libfreeipmi/ipckey is
| commonly removed by many bootup scripts, including the default redhat
| one.  I am going to change to /var/lib/libfreeipmi/ipckey.  I think this
| makes far more sense.
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Please go ahead and make that change. Even I didn't like /var/lock path.
FHS suggests only to keep only lock files there, while ipckey is
handle.

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| 2) When I created the 
| 
| IPMI_DEFAULT_SDR_REPO_CACHE_FILENAME
| 
| macro.  I stupidly set the default path to
| "/var/lib/fish/sdr-repo-cache".  It should instead by
| /var/lib/libfreeipmi/sdr-repo-cache" ... 
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OK

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| 3) make install of /var/lock/libfreeipmi/ipckey (to be renamed soon),
| doesn't install correctly when bulding RPMs.  I think we need to put
| some prefix on the line:
| 
| Ipckeydir     = /var/lock/$(PACKAGE)
| 
| like
| 
| Ipckeydir     = ($FOO)/var/lock/$(PACKAGE)
| 
| I remember hitting this issue before, but I can't remember what the
| variable prefix name is.  I'll figure it out.
| 
| After these changes, I'm going to tag as Alpha5-Qa1A.
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This has to be a *fixed path*. 

ftok uses inode of this file and 8 bits from PROJ_ID to make a unique
(somewhat) handle for IPC. All apps using libfreeipmi should refer to
same IPCKEY in order to use the mutex device.

/var/lib/libfreeipmi/ipckey sounds better.

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