Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:51:32 -0600 From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> 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: <1532886692.1212563.1456581312.54C4C94B@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20180729174447.GJ40119@kib.kiev.ua> References: <201807282036.w6SKaNSi037944@repo.freebsd.org> <20180729154249.GG40119@kib.kiev.ua> <1532883687.1202573.1456550816.74531130@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180729174447.GJ40119@kib.kiev.ua>
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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. > > > 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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