From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 29 13:55:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA12961 for current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12953 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA29352 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:55:43 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00842; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:54:14 -0600 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:54:14 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199604292054.OAA00842@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Bruce Evans Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: review request In-Reply-To: <199604292027.GAA31183@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199604292027.GAA31183@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> 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 of which is a completely out of date README.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?