Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:44:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <199808270444.VAA10855@apollo.backplane.com>
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:> Modified files:
:> etc make.conf
:> Log:
:> Reviewed by: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
:>
:> Give make.conf a make.conf.local capability similar to rc.conf's
:> rc.conf.local capability. Eases large-site administration.
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:Bogus. make.conf is already entirely local. It is the local extension
:of <sys.mk>.
:
:Bruce
make.conf contains a template of all (or most) customizeable defines.
To that end, whenever a freeBSD release is made /etc/make.conf needs to be
updated from /usr/src/etc so it contains the latest template features.
Because of that, it is hardly an 'entirely local' file. Like rc.conf,
it contains a set of defaults (even if all commented out) and, like
rc.conf, it's contents may change radically between releases.
And, like rc.conf, a localization mechanism (rc.conf.local equivalent)
is required to allow the sysad to maintain his own truely local version
of the file without having to re-merge his stuff into the system-provided
make.conf every time a system update is made.
If you want make.conf itself to be entirely local, the file should be
a nearly blank template similar to, say, /usr/src/etc/rc.local, or
not be in /usr/src/etc at all, similar to rc.conf.local. It should not
be a fairly large and complete file full of commented-out featurisms.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
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