On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Chris H wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:54:10 -0600 "Brad Davis" <b...@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?
I am not sure what the status or progress is for this. Probably worth contacting Kris Moore. Regards, Brad Davis _______________________________________________ freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pkgbase-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
