From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 27 01:35:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04677 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04660; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23716; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:33:57 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA12471; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:32:58 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980827093257.A12452@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:32:57 +0100 To: Matthew Dillon , Joseph Koshy Cc: Bruce Evans , committers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf References: <199808270509.WAA11055@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808270509.WAA11055@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:09:02PM -0700 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:09:02PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :If we need to do active things like checking for an additional "local" files > :then it is better done from a top level makefile. > > Hmm.. ok, works for me. Anyone have any objections to having sys.mk > check for an /etc/make.conf.local after /etc/make.conf ? I'd prefer it look for /usr/local/etc/make.conf. I like /etc to be as close to the original installation as possible. Or, perhaps have it look for both? Since we're here, the same functionality for /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly} would be nice (I'll cheerfully commit that change if no one objects). I think the only two .local files that *have* to live in /etc are rc.local and rc.conf.local, all the others could come from /usr/local/etc. With these changes, perhaps a lot of the files in /etc could be installed noschg, with a comment at the top to indicate that, yes, root can edit these files, but it's probably easier to create a '.local' or /usr/local/etc equivalent file and edit that instead. That's probably deviating too far from POLA though. Thoughts? N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton becomes Just Another Perl Contractor in 16 days. ]==+-- She's still dead. Deal with it.