Re: [PATCHES] gnu: nginx: Clean up installation directories.

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> From 81adae7d0de6e6d9213b81dc6a8747bfc6487420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 12:31:54 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: nginx: Use modify-phases syntax.

Okay.

> From 6757351ece10cafc5e9c04f5778e6ba6334979d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 12:34:45 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: nginx: Clean up installation directories.
>
> * gnu/packages/web.scm (nginx): Add 'fix-root-dirs' phase.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/web.scm | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/web.scm b/gnu/packages/web.scm
> index 031bbca..c41e9ba 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/web.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/web.scm
> @@ -137,7 +137,25 @@ and its related documentation.")
>                 (setenv "CC" "gcc")
>                 (format #t "environment variable `CC' set to `gcc'~%")
>                 (format #t "configure flags: ~s~%" flags)
> -               (zero? (apply system* "./configure" flags))))))))
> +               (zero? (apply system* "./configure" flags)))))
> +         (add-after install fix-root-dirs
> +           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +             ;; 'make install' puts things in strange places, so we need to
> +             ;; clean it up ourselves.
> +             (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
> +                    (share (string-append out "/share/nginx")))
> +               ;; This directory is empty, so get rid of it.
> +               (rmdir (string-append out "/logs"))
> +               ;; Example configuration and HTML files belong in
> +               ;; /share.
> +               (mkdir-p share)
> +               (rename-file (string-append out "/conf")
> +                            (string-append share "/conf"))
> +               (rename-file (string-append out "/html")
> +                            (string-append share "/html"))

Okay.

> +               ;; No reason to use /sbin
> +               (rename-file (string-append out "/sbin")
> +                            (string-append out "/bin"))))))))

I would prefer to avoid diverging from upstream without good reason, and
I don't see a good reason for this change.

What do you think?

Okay to push everything here except for the /sbin -> /bin change.

    Thanks!
      Mark