Bug 2188 - Config files should be in /etc
Summary: Config files should be in /etc
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mc
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
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: 69943 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-04-15 06:37 UTC by Marc MERLIN
Modified: 2013-07-02 22:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-28 11:23:01 UTC
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Patch to make mc FHS compliant. (12.04 KB, patch)
2006-02-24 14:39 UTC, Jindrich Novy
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Description Marc MERLIN 1999-04-15 06:37:34 UTC
I'm filling this on slrn, but other packages are affected:
at least rpm (/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc), midnight commander
(/usr/lib/mc/mc.{ini,lib}), lynx (/usr/lib/lynx.cfg),
and possibly others.

The FHS says that config files should be in /etc, and you've
fixed most packages to respect this rule, but a few
(including the ones mentionned above) are missing.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-15 13:54:59 UTC
lynx at least has been fixed in 5.9

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-06-18 16:43:59 UTC
Those are not config files. You can override /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc in
/etc/rpmrc if you want.

Comment 3 Marc MERLIN 2003-04-29 04:33:35 UTC
mc is still not fixed, 4 years later :-(
Neither is vim...

You are still putting mc config files outside of /etc/mc (/usr/share/mc).
Vim is also still equally broken and doesn't look for its config in /etc/vim

Comment 4 Karsten Hopp 2003-08-12 10:48:03 UTC
vim is fixed, mc still needs fixing 

Comment 5 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-07 12:08:38 UTC
I wouldn't move the whole /usr/share/mc hierarchy, just 
/usr/share/mc/cedit.menu
/usr/share/mc/edit.indent.rc
/usr/share/mc/edit.spell.rc
/usr/share/mc/mc.ext
/usr/share/mc/mc.lib
/usr/share/mc/mc.menu

to /etc/mc/
It will need source changes so that those config files are first looked up
in /etc/mc/ and only when not found searched in /usr/share/mc.

Comment 6 Jindrich Novy 2004-10-30 09:14:36 UTC
*** Bug 69943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jindrich Novy 2006-02-24 14:39:30 UTC
Created attachment 125177 [details]
Patch to make mc FHS compliant.

So finally here we go with the patch. I'll send it upstream as well.

Comment 8 Jindrich Novy 2006-02-25 12:29:29 UTC
Fixed in mc-4.6.1a-8.

Comment 9 Leonard den Ottolander 2006-02-27 21:37:33 UTC
Fix is incomplete and breaks syntax highlighting. /home/<user>/.mc/cedit/Syntax
cannot be found. Adding /etc/mc/syntax/Syntax fixes the issue.


Comment 10 Jindrich Novy 2006-02-28 11:22:36 UTC
Ok, reproduced and fixed. It was only a packaging problem fixed in spec. Thanks
for testing.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2006-03-07 16:36:40 UTC
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

mc-4.6.1a-5.fc4 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.


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