Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:41:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. Message-ID: <199902092341.PAA61997@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199902092332.PAA01048@dingo.cdrom.com>
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:As Jordan pointed out, this gets very messy very quickly.
:
:> I don't think we should have an /etc/defaults/ directory, but if
:> it is insisted on then *ALL* the read-only files should be moved into
:> it, not just one of them.
:
:All of the files that currently mix read-only and read-write data
:will, ideally, be split so that the read-only content goes into
:/etc/defaults, and the "local changes" stay in /etc. The next big
:candidate for this is make.conf, but that will require careful testing
:first.
I think it's a *BAD* idea to change rc.conf operation for the 3.1
distribution. Bad Bad Bad.
If you guys want to fix the read-only / read-write mess, fix it
for 3.2 and 4.x and don't just go piecemeal -- fix 90% of it right
off the bat. Move rc, rc.network, rc.firewall, rc.diskless{1,2},
rc.atm, rc.devfs, rc.isdn, rc.pccard, rc.serial, and rc.shutdown
into your defaults directory.
defaults is a bad name. Why not make it /etc/dist/ ?? for
'distribution files'. Much more obviously a 'do not mess with me'
directory then /etc/defaults is.
Either way, I really think we have enough problems to deal with
that changing rc.conf operation in 3.2 would just be asking for it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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