Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 07:18:33 -0600 From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: rgrimes@FreeBSD.org, "src-committers" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc Message-ID: <1528377513.2844855.1399736216.1FC8DF28@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20180607072958.GA51308@FreeBSD.org> References: <201806061833.w56IXWBC006288@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <1528311745.474139.1398838488.1527C06D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180607072958.GA51308@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, at 1:29 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:02:25PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > ... > > > So each installworld would wipe over the top of any localmod /etc/rc.d/ > > > and other stuff that mght exist? > > > One of the reasons that etc/Makefile is detached from Installword is so > > > that /etc does not get perturbuted unless specifically requested. > > > > Yes, this is by design. > > > > If people need custom tweaks for that stuff they should be upstreamed or > > moved into /usr/local/etc/rc.d as a custom startup script. > > This is rather questionable design to me. I don't consider my scripts > as binaries and like them in /etc/rc.d/ and managed via mergemaster -Fi. > Everything was perfectly fine with it. What exactly the problem you're > trying to solve here? But they are provided by the system and should not be modified in place. Hence the suggestion to move them out of /etc. Regards, Brad Davis
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