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FS#2195 - Minicom uses /usr/etc which is unusal, and even does not exists

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ferenc Deak (feco) - Saturday, 12 February 2005, 21:50 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 13 February 2005, 00:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Low
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The current minicom package 2.1-2 is very strange. It's searching for its config files in '/usr/etc' which is not used for any file in archlinux, and even does not exists, and therefore it is very annoying because minicom can't save its configuration without creating '/usr/etc' by
hand.

But if I recompile it with its current and unmodified PKGBUILD it's searching for its files in the usual (and I think the right) location '/etc'. So it seems minicom must be simply recompiled and re-distributed with an incremented version.

You can simply verify it with 'minicom -h'. The current package's help contains a line 'configurations is compiled to /usr/etc.' The recompiled package will contains /etc.
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Closed by  dorphell (dorphell)
Friday, 25 February 2005, 21:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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