Re: Moving /etc/rc.conf.local to /usr/local/etc/rc.conf

> On Jan 27, 2024, at 5:31 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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>> I know you can customize the rc_conf_files variable to hold a value with my files of choice, but that in itself implies customizing /etc/rc.conf to override rc_conf_files’ default value, which defeats the purpose of keeping all customizations to /usr/local/etc.
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> I didn't write this stuff, I just use it.

I wasn’t saying you did ;) Was just asking if you knew if there was any rationale behind the choice of supporting /etc/rc.conf.local out-of-the-box, but not /usr/local/etc/rc.conf. If there is such a rationale, then an upstream contribution to support the latter would probably not make sense. Otherwise, I’d be more than happy to send a merge request.
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> The rc.conf stuff is just shell scripts so you can look at each script to see what it does.
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> You will probably find there's no way around putting config stuff in /etc/rc.conf.  Whenever I spin up a FreeBSD VPS, there's always a custom rc.conf with the hostname, IP address, and so forth.

Sure thing, absolutely, but my point is keeping that to a minimum, and moving as much stuff as possible to /usr/local/etc. I can already do that via individual /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/$name  configuration files, as I said before, but supporting a single /usr/local/etc/rc.conf file out-of-the-box would also be a pretty interesting option, in my opinion.
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