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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:33:07 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336845 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/rc.d sbin/init sbin/init/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20180729183307.GK40119@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:51:32AM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 08:36:23PM +0000, Brad Davis wrote:
> > > > > Author: brd
> > > > > Date: Sat Jul 28 20:36:23 2018
> > > > > New Revision: 336845
> > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336845
> > > > > 
> > > > > Log:
> > > > >   Move rc startup scripts from etc/ to sbin/init/
> > > > Why all these moves are useful ?
> > > > 
> > > > No commit message explained what is the goal of the moves, and why
> > > > it is better that way comparing the existing src/etc collection.
> > > 
> > > For pkg base we need to distill things out of etc/ and into places
> > > where they fit better. This enables them to be pkged up with the
> > > parts of the system them belong with and the CONFS= tags them as
> > > config files so that pkg will know about them and be able to 3-way
> > > merge them. This keeps the flexibility we have today with the many
> > > WITH_*/WITHOUT_* knobs. Though it is not without trade offs, keeping
> > > all of one part of the system together is simpler and makes some
> > > maintenance easier.
> > I do not see why do we need this for the pkgbase.  There is nothing
> > wrong with installation of the whole clean dist-supplied /etc on
> > the fresh system.  More, as you noted yourself, the ability to have
> > all the config files installed is simpler and allows to overview and
> > prepare configuration without requiring to have the corresponding
> > packages installed.
> 
> On a fresh system sure, but on upgrades that is a problem.
> 
> I was not advocating for having all the etc files installed, even when you do not have that pkg installed.  I am saying it matches what happens today if you have, for example, WITHOUT_ACPI=y set.
> 
All of this should have been written, perhaps even with more details,
in the commit message.

Still, sbin/init/rc is nonsence.

> > > > Moving startup scripts to sbin/init is at least dubious, IMO.
> > > > Startup scripts has nothing to do with init(8), but this is the
> > > > second-order question.
> > >
> > > Do you have a better idea of a place for them? This is the most
> > > logical place I could think of.
> > rc scripts are definitely not configuration files. They are executables.
> > 
> > I proposed this several times, the /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.* are very much
> > wrong place to contain the scripts. For instance, /libexec/rc/ could be
> > more logical and much more operationally correct: e.g. the scripts can
> > be updated by make installworld (or some sub-target) and removed by the
> > ObsoleteFiles.
> 
> I agree with that, but was shot down as too big of a POLA violation on this list back during BSDCan.
> 
> I think it is something we can tackle, but I do not want it to hold up pkgbase so I am not willing to merge the two projects.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Brad Davis



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