Bug 69943 - mc's config files should be in /etc/mc, not /usr/lib/mc/
Summary: mc's config files should be in /etc/mc, not /usr/lib/mc/
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2188
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mc
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-26 17:32 UTC by Marc MERLIN
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:58 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:49:18 UTC
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Description Marc MERLIN 2002-07-26 17:32:18 UTC 
To be FHS compliant, you should either symlink the following files to /etc/mc,
or compile mc to look for them there:

/usr/lib/mc/mc.ext
/usr/lib/mc/mc.ini (not supplied by default, but looked up by mc)
/usr/lib/mc/mc.lib
/usr/lib/mc/mc.menu
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-27 16:24:50 UTC 
I'd prefer to see this patch upstream than in RH.
Comment 2 Marc MERLIN 2002-07-28 01:00:28 UTC 
I looked at the source, and what debian did.
It's apparently just a compile option issue:

debian's diff has:
+diff -ruN mc-4.5.55.orig/Make.common.in mc-4.5.55/Make.common.in
+--- mc-4.5.55.orig/Make.common.in      Fri Jul 20 17:22:50 2001
++++ mc-4.5.55/Make.common.in   Sun Aug 26 18:10:57 2001
+@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
+ mandir     = @mandir@
+ mclibdir   = $(libdir)/mc
+ suppbindir = $(mclibdir)/bin
+-confdir    = $(sysconfdir)
++confdir    = /etc/mc
+ localedir  = $(datadir)/locale
+ man1dir    = $(mandir)/man1
+ manext     = 1
Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2004-10-30 09:14:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2188 ***
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:18 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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