Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 00:44:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Igor M Podlesny <hostmaster@morning.ru>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Vadim Vygonets <vadik-hackers@freebsd.vygo.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader.conf conditional assignment Message-ID: <200110142244.f9EMiKA73045@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200110142004.f9EK4Ze01075@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith wrote:
> > Is there any chance off implementing syntax like
> >
> > kernel=${kernel:-/kernel}
> >
> > which is obviously sh-compilant?
>
> I don't much like either of these proposals.
>
> My principal objection is that they're trying to solve the wrong problem.
>
> The original poster is setting $kernel in the DHCP client code, and then
> having it overwritten when defaults/loader.conf is parsed.
>
> If instead they set $dhcp_kernel, and then put
>
> kernel=$dhcp_kernel
>
> in their "real" loader.conf the entire problem should go away, and we
> don't have to extend any of the syntax.
what's happen if $dhcp_kernel isn't sets ?
Cyrille.
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