This is useful for development where overwriting files out side
the configured prefix will affect the host as well as stateless
systems such as NixOS that don't let packages install to /etc but handle
configuration on their own.
Alternative to https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17501
tested with:
$ mkdir inst build && cd build
$ meson \
-Dcreate-log-dirs=false \
-Dsysvrcnd-path=$(realpath ../inst)/etc/rc.d \
-Dsysvinit-path=$(realpath ../inst)/etc/init.d \
-Drootprefix=$(realpath ../inst) \
-Dinstall-sysconfdir=false \
--prefix=$(realpath ../inst) ..
$ ninja install
This was added in ffac30349e in 2017 but didn't
get added to the meson.build thus never actually installing it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
There is no change in the file right now, but the download seems to work
OK.
It's funny that the biggest company in the world cannot provide a
download link in plain text.
Jörg Thalheim