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authorJeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>2015-06-04 15:51:01 +0000
committerJeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>2015-06-04 15:53:45 +0000
commit9298ddc6cb8607e5944973d13a82565542845e69 (patch)
treedbd7cc10c7ae62a1eb1f0b3821380c5afe505667
parent1dfe9ef348c777bef67b2c2b1d35e50ebc720333 (diff)
downloadpbr-9298ddc6cb8607e5944973d13a82565542845e69.tar.gz
More explicit data_files install location docs
Make it obvious to the reader that data_files installation target location translates to the actual system-wide root filesystem tree when installed with sufficient permissions to do so. Change-Id: I67a4dc61ab89b96b4f5e1f99f0199e5a3247412a
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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
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@@ -264,10 +264,13 @@ for installing entire directory structures, so::
Will result in `/etc/neutron` containing `api-paste.ini` and `dhcp-agent.ini`,
both of which pbr will expect to find in the `etc` directory in the root of
the source tree. Additionally, `neutron.init` from that dir will be installed
-in `/etc/init.d`.
+in `/etc/init.d`. All of the files and directories located under `etc/pbr` in
+the source tree will be installed into `/etc/pbr`.
-All of the files and directories located under `etc/pbr` in the source tree
-will be installed into `/etc/pbr`.
+Note that this behavior is relative to the effective root of the environment
+into which the packages are installed, so depending on available permissions
+this could be the actual system-wide `/etc` directory or just a top-level `etc`
+subdirectory of a virtualenv.
entry_points
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