On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:58:08AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >Is there any real reason why loader.rc is not updated by > >default? I'd be interested to know how many people out > > It was my decision. > > Before I wrote the stuff in *.4th that is used nowadays to read > loader.conf, one had to write a loader.rc script to do any kind of > special processing one wanted. Also, if anyone *does* want something > more sophisticated, like my menu that allows me to chose different extra > *.conf files, which in turn allows me to do stuff like selecting between > 4.x and 5.x from inside loader instead of boot0, one has to change > loader.rc. > > We standard loader.rc does provide for flexibility in the following ways: > > 1) User may change /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local, while > "we" may change /boot/defaults/loader.conf. > > 2) User may change /boot/loader.rc as he deems fit, while "we" may > change loader.4th and support.4th to add features. > > Granted, the general overlay of loader.rc does restrict somewhat what > features we can introduce. > We could avoid this problem by having the standard loader.rc installed to /boot/defaults/loader.rc, and modifying loader(8) to parse /boot/loader.rc if it exists, and /boot/defaults/loader.rc otherwise.
> To my mind, however, it is possible to introduce Scott's beastie menu by > making changes to loader.4th. In particular, we could change "start" in > loader.4th, and, if we *really* feel like it is needed, copy the old > version to some other word (old-start, non-beastie-start, whatever :). > > Also, if we do go that way, I'd like, for source style reasons, to have > Scott's script changed not to use evaluate. :-) > I can't comment here, Forth is double Dutch for me. ;) -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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