From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 27 02:22:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12387 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:22:19 -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 CAA12261; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:22:00 -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 KAA25833; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:21:00 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA12687; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:20:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980827102000.I6112@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:20:00 +0100 To: Satoshi Asami Cc: dillon@backplane.com, jkoshy@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au, committers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf References: <19980827100624.G6112@iii.co.uk> <199808270911.CAA11793@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808270911.CAA11793@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:11:04AM -0700 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:11:04AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I like /etc being as static as possible. It minimises the amount of > * work I have to do when I upgrade the system (since most of my changes > * are in /usr/local/etc) and it's a step in the right direction to being > * able to mount /etc read-only. > > Then put it in /var/etc or whatever. That *does* *not* *belong* *to* > *${PREFIX}*. (Sorry for shouting, but this is ridiculous.) It's got nothing to do with ${PREFIX}, and I don't see where you got that impression. The fact that (should something like this ever get implemented) ${PREFIX} and kern.local_config *might* happen to have the same value is completely irrelevant. The FreeBSD administrator could chose to set kern.local_config to /usr/local/etc, /var/etc, /usr/host/etc (which is a scheme I've seen people use when /usr/local was NFS mounted), /opt/etc, or whatever, completely seperate from whatever value is in ${PREFIX}. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton becomes Just Another Perl Contractor in 16 days. ]==+-- She's still dead. Deal with it.