Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 05:01:16 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: current@freebsd.org, hans@brandinnovators.com Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. Message-ID: <199707121201.FAA07881@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <7771.868708033@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* Well, it's a nice field, yes. Editable I'm not so sure about. :-) * We need some way of doing this from scripts and other utilities, * and I guess that's the next step. I thought the whole point of enforcing a strict syntax to rc.conf (one variable per line, comments in the same line after the `var="value"' pair, etc.) was to make it easily editable from scripts. At least it's not much less auto-editable than the proposed /etc/ld.so.config, considering that they need to delete lines when the user deinstalls the package.... One can even argue that it is just as easy because if they want to be really lazy (i.e., don't even want to use ed/sed/awk), they can just do something like echo "local_startup="${local_startup} /usr/dt/lib # CDE, do not touch" \ >> /etc/rc.conf during installation and mv /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.tmp grep -v '^local_startup=${local_startup} /usr/dt/lib # CDE, do not touch$' \ /etc/rc.conf.tmp > /etc/rc.conf rm /etc/rc.conf.tmp for deinstallation. * But yes, you're right - it wouldn't take a lot of work to make /usr/dt * conformant. Glad you agree. :) Satoshi
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