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diff --git a/doc/dev_manual.rst b/doc/dev_manual.rst index 921b9546d..410c58315 100644 --- a/doc/dev_manual.rst +++ b/doc/dev_manual.rst @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Runtime Configuration Many packages are using run-time configuration files along with their executables and libraries. PTXdist provides default configuration files for the most common cases. These files can be found in the -``generic/etc`` directory and they are using the same names as the ones +``projectroot/etc`` directory and they are using the same names as the ones at run-time (and their install directory on the target side will also be ``/etc``). @@ -109,9 +109,10 @@ absence of a common case. The project must provide replacements of these files with a more useful content in every case where the (empty) default one does not meet the target’s requirements. -PTXdist first searches the project local ``./projectroot/etc`` directory -for a specific configuration file and falls back to use the default one -if none exists locally. +PTXdist first searches in the local project directory for a specific +configuration file and falls back to use the default one if none exists +locally. Refer section :ref:`install_alternative` for further +details in which order and locations PTXdist searches for these kind of files. A popular example is the configuration file ``/etc/fstab``. The default one coming with PTXdist works for the most common cases. But if our |