[Bug 230324] Review Request: avrdude -Software for programming Atmel AVR Microcontroller

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Summary: Review Request: avrdude -Software for programming Atmel AVR Microcontroller


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230324





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2007-02-28 08:26 EST -------
[Another mid-air collision ;)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #1)

> > * What also makes me wonder is the sources shipping a *.info but the package not
> > installing it ?!?
> > 
> 
> It is, good catch.
The appropriate automake-magic is in doc/Makefile.am, but it's commented out,
for reasons I can only guess on - Is upstream still active? Then they might want
to clean up their sources ;)

> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > * Can you explain a bit about how the config file is not supposed to 
> > > be modified by end-users? 
> > I doubt Trond's statement. It's a system-wide configuration file, being
> > generated by the configure script, not a sample.
> > IMO, if it's a sample then it must not be located under /etc but should be
> > placed elsewhere (e.g. %doc)
> > 
> > For the moment I'd recommend to use
> > %configure ... --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir}/avrdude
> > And to mark it %config(noreplace)
> > 
> > i.e. to treat it as a system-wide config file.
> > 
> 
> Agreed, but why put it in a seperate subdir of /etc,
why not?

> do we expect avrdude to
> have multiple config files, is there a guideline for this I'm not aware of. 

Nope, it' just my personal preference. For two reasons:

1. I hate package polluting /etc and I hate packages which momentary
(temporarily?) apply one single configuration file, because packages in longer
terms tend to have more than one config file.

2. In case of embedded tools, I tend to have several config files reflecting
different setups, which I tend to keep in parallel. 
I don't use avrdude, so I am not sure if this applies in this particular case.
Probably most users will apply setups in ~/ should they need customized setups.


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