Re: gdm not installing all files (garnome 2.14.2.1)

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Stefan,

A basic maxim of GARNOME is "do no harm".  The GARNOME build process
should only install files into the GARNOME install tree.  The build
process should never *automatically* install any file into a system
directory.  That being said, we are left to deal with post-install
issues like PAM files.

The issue with PAM is that it does not support a search path environment
variable like python or pkg-config. Using soft links one way to solve
the problem.

-Joseph

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On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:47 +0200, schollsky arcor de wrote:
> This seems to be a minor one:
> 
> gdm builds all fine, but only gdmsetup is copied into $GARNOME/etc/pam.d/.
> 
> The new POST-INSTALL tells me to do the following:
> 
>   As root, create three soft links:
> 
>     ln -s $garnome/etc/pam.d/gdm /etc/pam.d
>     ln -s $garnome/etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin /etc/pam.d
>     ln -s $garnome/etc/pam.d/gdmsetup /etc/pam.d
> 
> Appropriate gdm and gdm-autologin files can be copied manually from the work directory 
> into the install tree, but I don't think it's meant this way.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stefan
> 
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