Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] Power functions in vmware-guestd

[Justin M. F. <jmf...@li...>]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:21 -0800, Elliot Lee wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation. I think a .d scheme would be very useful and
> very easy to do. Can't promise it for the next release (which I'm hoping
> will be ready in a week or so), but I'll try if there's time. The main thing
> I'd like feedback from others on is the actual directory path that these
> scripts will be dropped into. I'm thinking of either
> 
> Scriptsdir="`dirname $0`"/scripts/`basename $0`.d"
> 
> (to match your current setup) or just
> 
> Scriptsdir=$0.d
> 
> The main constraint is that it has to work properly even if the scripts are
> in /usr/local/etc or /var/fooblah.
> 
Right, so the scripts really have to be in a set place at build time, by
default that is $sysconfdir/vmware-tools.  It seems to make the most
sense to me that we look in that tree for the user scripts.
Scriptsdir="`dirname $0`"/scripts/`basename $0`.d" would work just fine,
our actual scripts use %(sysconfdir)s/vmware-tools/ and use conary macro
substitution to place that as /etc/vmware-tools at build time.  Of
course if the builder has those set elsewhere, that is fine too.

Justin