changing the install location of hal-system-power-pmu to libexec

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Fri Feb 17 14:05:29 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:40:52PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Okay, installing hal-system-power-pmu to bin isn't the best of ideas, as
> it's only designed to be run by HAL. Nor is it a good idea to install
> to /usr/share/hal/scripts, as it's quite clearly not a script.
> 
> In CVS, the hal-power-brightness-* scripts assume it's in the latter, so
> don't work for pmu at the moment. [1]
> 
> David wanted it to go into libexec, for which I've attached a patch, but
> It's real messy with the hardcoded /usr/libexec/ bit in each file. The
> only way I see around that is to convert each script into a script.in
> file that gets 'compiled' with the correct path.

The libexec dir should be part of the PATH of every program the runner calls.
So no need to hardcode it, just call hal-system-power-pmu :)

  Sjoerd
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