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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:38:05 -0400
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Renato Botelho <garga.bsd@gmail.com>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, rgrimes@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc
Message-ID:  <A48064ED-352C-4544-90D2-021AFA47F37B@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Jun 5, 2018, at 16:43, Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > On 05/06/18 15:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 12:13:05PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >>> I find it often very useful to do
> > >>> (cd src/etc/rc.d && make install)
> > >>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in fact contai=
ns
> > >>> non-editable content.  Is this planned to keep working ?
> > >>
> > >> The short answer is, no.  All rc.d scripts get moved to the src of th=
e program they start.
> > >>
> > >> That said, if there is a big need for this, we can see about options t=
o keep them working.
> > >>
> > >> What are you trying to accomplish when you do this?  Just verify the r=
c.d scripts match your src tree?
> > >
> > > I avoid mergemaster/etcupdate and whatever else. rc.d and /etc/rc,
> > > /etc/rc.subr /etc/rc.network are not suitable to etc, they are binarie=
s
> > > provided by the project not for the user editing.
> > >
> > > When upgrading the host, esp. on HEAD, i usually refresh scripts by th=
is
> > > procedure and avoid any editing and implied conflict resolution for re=
al
> > > configs.
> > >
> > > Not being able to easily install clean copies of these scripts would
> > > be very inconvenient and time consuming.
> >
> > If I understood what Brad is saying, each rc.d script will be installed
> > by the application it belongs to. So when it's installing SSH it will
> > also install /etc/rc.d/sshd and you will not need to deal with rc.d
> > files on mergemaster anymore.
> >
> > Is it correct, Brad?
>=20
> Correct.=20
>=20

This makes no sense. Many rc scripts, and other config files, have no =E2=80=
=9Cowner=E2=80=9D outside of etc/...

Please don=E2=80=99t kill etc/Makefile. This is going to be very painful to d=
eal with downstream.

>=20
> Regards,
> Brad Davis




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