What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...)

[Brian Somers]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:55:28 +0000 (UTC), Mike Makonnen <mtm at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> mtm         2004-10-07 13:55:28 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  rc rc.shutdown 
>     etc/rc.d             DAEMON LOGIN NETWORKING SERVERS abi 
>                          accounting addswap adjkerntz amd apm apmd 
>                          archdep atm1 atm2 atm3 bgfsck bootparams 
>                          ccd cleanvar cleartmp cron devd devfs 
>                          dhclient dmesg dumpon early.sh fsck gbde 
>                          gbde_swap hostname ike inetd initdiskless 
>                          initrandom ip6addrctl ip6fw ipfilter ipfs 
>                          ipfw ipmon ipnat ipsec ipxrouted isdnd 
>                          jail kadmind kerberos keyserv kldxref 
>                          kpasswdd ldconfig local localpkg lomac 
>                          lpd mixer motd mountcritlocal 
>                          mountcritremote mountd moused mroute6d 
>                          mrouted msgs named natd netif netoptions 
>                          network_ipv6 nfsclient nfsd nfslocking 
>                          nfsserver nisdomain nsswitch ntpd ntpdate 
>                          othermta pccard pcvt pf pflog 
>                          power_profile ppp-user pppoed 
>                          preseedrandom pwcheck quota ramdisk 
>                          ramdisk-own random rarpd rcconf.sh resolv 
>                          root route6d routed routing rpcbind 
>                          rtadvd rwho savecore securelevel sendmail 
>                          serial sppp sshd swap1 syscons sysctl 
>                          syslogd timed tmp usbd var vinum 
>                          virecover watchdogd ypbind yppasswdd 
>                          ypserv ypset ypupdated ypxfrd 
>   Log:
>   Remove the requirement for the FreeBSD keyword as it no longer
>   makes any sense.
>   
>   Discussed with: dougb, brooks
>   MFC after: 3 days

This makes life painful enough to ask....

Is there any good reason that mergemaster deals with this stuff rather than
make installworld?  Or maybe I should ask, why doesn't make installworld
handle *some* stuff in /etc, such as /etc/rc.d/ and /etc/defaults/?

<IMHO>
I guess the good reason is that POLA says that stuff under /etc/ doesn't
change with an installworld.  But does this mean that we should keep this
stuff (along with /etc/defaults/) somewhere else (/system/rc.d/,
/system/defaults/)?  After all, the BSD world has always been against the
sysV idea of storing binaries under /etc/, and /etc/rc.d/ is now full
of binaries.... well, programs then.
</IMHO>

Or maybe I'm just completely off track and the real world (!) adds its
own /etc/rc.d/ stuff and modifies /etc/defaults/?

-- 
Brian <brian at Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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