Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 13:32:50 -0500
From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: ${PREFIX}/etc/defaults?
Message-ID: <002501c0620e$7154c920$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References: <14898.15686.684993.235346@guru.mired.org>
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> In contemplating building another port with a config file, I have to > wonder why ports don't use the same mechanism as the base system? > I.e. - why do I have /usr/opt/etc/healthd.conf.sample instead of > /usr/opt/etc/defaults/healthd.conf, /usr/opt/etc/orbitrc.default > instead of /usr/opt/etc/defaults/defaults/orbitrc, and so on? I would love it if the ports system would adopt such a convention. It keeps defaults from mingling with production data. When maintaining multiple systems, it's nice to know that doing a pkg_add would (in all cases) install default/sample configs into a tree that's totally separate from the production one. -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services +1 (800) 217 5409 (Canada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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