That is a very dangerous direction.
Inevitably, site*.tgz will need refactoring or replacement in the
coming years. What you submitted will surprise people, just like you
were surprised the files are replaced.
I think this will cause further damage. For instance, if we start
shipping these files in the base install, suddenly the install script
will break. Complex semantic..
> Diff below changes behavior in the install script to not overwrite etc
> files that are already present. This comes up when during install an
> interface is configured with dhcp and siteXX configures it statically or
> mygate is configured manually during installation and is different in
> siteXX. The alternative is to untar siteXX sets specially after the
> installer has copied over its config which is quite a bit messier.
>
> This may introduce problems with boot.conf, myname, and sysctl.conf as
> they exist in the etc set. Perhaps these files should be handled
> separately.
>
> Index: distrib/miniroot/install.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sh,v
> retrieving revision 1.246
> diff -p -u -r1.246 install.sh
> --- distrib/miniroot/install.sh 20 Mar 2014 20:01:28 -0000 1.246
> +++ distrib/miniroot/install.sh 31 Mar 2014 08:26:46 -0000
> @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ _f=dhclient.conf
> # myname ttys boot.conf resolv.conf sysctl.conf resolv.conf.tail
> # Save only non-empty (-s) regular (-f) files.
> (cd /tmp; for _f in fstab hostname* kbdtype my* ttys *.conf *.tail; do
> - [[ -f $_f && -s $_f ]] && mv $_f /mnt/etc/.
> + [[ -f $_f && -s $_f ]] && { echo n | mv -i $_f /mnt/etc/. 2>/dev/null }
> done)
>
> apply
