Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:54:14 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: review request Message-ID: <199604292054.OAA00842@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199604292027.GAA31183@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199604292027.GAA31183@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> There should be no `.sample' files in /etc. > > >Where do you suggest sticking etc 'example' files then? I'm thinking of > > The same place as rc.sample (/dev/null). We have a /usr/share/examples/etc, > but no one seems to look in there. It contains only 3 files, the largest > of which is a completely out of date README. > > >files (pccard.conf.example) that shouldn't (yet) be installed unless the > >user explicitly installs them, since they are system specific > >(IRQ/IOMEM/etc) but shouldn't require the user to install the source > >dist. to get at them. > > Perhaps they should go in /etc.sample (in / because they are machine- > dependent and you might want them before mounting /usr). They should end up in /etc *after* they are edited, so it's not critical that they exist before /usr is mounted. > Some other things in /usr/src/share/examples could be handled better. > I changed the Makefile to make sure that everything is installed (in case > the user doesn't install the source dist.), but it makes no sense to > install examples of sources. OTOH, sources are a bit hard to get to in > /usr/src/share/examples. Why do you say that?
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