Return of config files to ^/etc

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Wed Feb 19 13:49:22 UTC 2020


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> Indeed- this is just one proposal. rgrimes had other concerns with
> leaving installation where it was previously moved to- he was going to
> raise this and other concerns here on -arch@, but I reckon he got a
> bit busy as well. I'm not opposed to moving the installation into
> ^/etc since we can still guarantee it'll get packaged correctly.

EBUSY, ietf interim meeting tomarrow, after that I have some cycles.

I am not so much opposed to having installs of the files spread
out so much, as long as both the old behavior and new behavior
BOTH work:
	cd /usr/src/etc; DESTDIR=/foo/bar make distribution

	vs

	what ever it is you have to do today to get a full prestine
	copy of /etc from base.

I support the idea that a module/package should be able to pkg
the config files BUTT a "make install" in any of them MUST not
smash my etc/ files unless I explicitly enable that some how.
I believe that is handled with make conf?

I also have a very large desire to see this MFC'ed back to stable/12
so that there are only 12.0 and 12.1 being the odd mans out so support
for this intermidiate state can be ended rather quickly.

> Thanks,
> Kyle Evans
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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