Re: [Jailkit-dev] Jailkit Staging and Chroot installs

[Olivier Sessink]

Stephen Tallowitz wrote:
> Hello Oli and List,
> 
> I'm currently rewriting the jailkit ebuild on gentoo and have come
> across something that might be of interest to all using jailkit:
> 
> The makefiles don't support $DESTDIR
> 
> Here's what destdir does: 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
> 
> I've created a patch (attached in this mail). I'd appreciate any
> feedback as to wether this work on other platforms or if any problems
> are encountered. (Patch is for jailkit 2.0).

can you make a patch for jailkit cvs ?

> There is a small remark I'd like to make: The patch is created in
> such a way that it modifies /etc/shells in DESTDIR. The reasoning
> being that jailkit will probably be installed into a DESTDIR where
> there's a running basic operating system (thus /etc/shells should
> exist in that DESTDIR).

Since DESTDIR is mostly for package maintainers: I think most package
maintainers should include a distribution-customized way to append a
shell to /etc/shells anyway.

regards,
        Olivier