Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:28:29 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf, take 46! Message-ID: <XFMail.990322082829.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903220415270.72040-100000@nomad.dataplex.net>
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On 22-Mar-99 Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 22-Mar-99 Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>> > There is a problem with this approach.
>> >
>> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf defines ${rc_conf_files}
>> > However, I have no chance to override it before it is used.
>> >
>> > However, I fear that you need a bit more logic to allow the
>> > overriding of ${rc_conf_files}.
>>
>> Where are going to override it? If we use some other config file that gets
>> sucked in to /etc/defaults/rc.conf we'd have a config file included in
>> another config file that tells it what other config files to include. If
>> this
>> keeps up we'll end up with a bunch of config files floating around that
>> config
>> other config files, which will end up messy and confusing for newbies, IMHO.
>
> Unless someone comes up with a scheme that tracks set membership and
> allows us to add to that set, I think that we should stick to the "simple"
> approach.
>
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf defines ${rc_conf_files} to be "/etc/rc.conf"
>
> /etc/rc.conf is allowed to override this definition to include additional
> files such as "/etc/rc.conf.local"
However, the original definition has already been used once the /etc/rc.conf
has been read. Unless you are going to call the for loop twice, once after
/etc/defaults/rc.conf to include /etc/rc.conf and once after /etc/rc.conf to
include the extra stuff you define, your changes to ${rc_conf_files} in
/etc/rc.conf will never take effect.
> Those files get sucked in.
>
> - - -
>
> An alternate, and perhaps cleaner approach would be to always suck in
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. Then suck in those files specified
> in ${additional_rc_conf_files}.
That would work, but then we have two includes everywhere that we have 1 now.
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