Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 02:43:44 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> To: <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org>, "Brad Davis" <brd@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: pkgbase: Move of head/etc/ files Message-ID: <9e28add9809e7d19c3b0d14880df62d8@udns.ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <1533167650.2567721.1460524472.3AC8CC35@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:54:10 -0600 "Brad Davis" <brd@FreeBSD.org> said > Hello, > > I want to give some information on what is happening to files in head/etc/ > and open a discussion. > > I am trying to move all config files out of head/etc/ and place them with the > source files for the particular use. For example, some of these are obvious > moves like moving say portsnap.conf to usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap.conf. The > review for this move shows exactly what would happen here: > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16554. For these cases, there are some easy > benefits, like: > 1) Keeping all files as part of a program together, which makes maintenance > for maintainers a little easier. > 2) Simplicity, we do not need all the .if ${MK_FOO} lines in etc/Makefile > because that is handled a level above the programs Makefile and so one CONFS= > line is all that is needed. > 3) Easier to avoid bugs where we install things that should not be installed. > Like for apmd, we installed apmd.conf on all archs even though it only works > on i386. i.e. we don't have to keep knobs in sync in multiple locations. > > Some of the more complicated things to move like etc/shells and the init > scripts. I picked the location of etc/shells based on it being used by > getusershell(3) in libc, so it ended up in lib/libc/gen/shells. The move of > the init scripts was based on a few things, including the reasons above, but > additionally: > 1) Isolating a subcomponent, for example work is happening to bring in > OpenRC, so we will have multiple init systems with different types of > scripts, so moving them away from head/etc/ keeps them isolated. Is the current rc(8) broken? Is OpenRC an intended replacement? How is this going to work? > > This work was driven by needing to tag these files as config files in the > METALOG so that pkg knows what is a config file so that pkg can 3-way merge > them. > > More info on pkgbase: https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase > > > Regards, > Brad Davis --Chris
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