named, VARMFS=yes and FILESDIR

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

Hello,

while building an embedded slave DNS I recognized that running named out 
of the box with VARMFS enabled would fail.
Now I could easily fix it for my device only, but I think it's better to 
solve it upstream.
VARMFS=Yes is a standard option, likewise named_enable.

Short description of the problem:
When rc detects non-writabel /var or VARMFS is set to yes, a new /var 
tree gets populated. This comes without config, hint file and likewise 
for /var/named/namedb, but /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/namedb.

rc.d/named could easily be supplemented with the neccessary checks, but 
we don't have the needed files outside of /var.

My idea is to create a namedb directory in /usr/share (like there's one 
for sendmail) with duplicate entries of src/etc/namedb

Unfortunately I couldn't find out where FILESDIR is processed in the bsd 
build stages.
If the idea is plausable, how do I best install /usr/share/namedb?
src/etc/namedb is entered at DISTRIBUTION target, right?

Id highly appreciate if somebody who's familar with the build stages 
could give me some hints.

Thanks,

-Harry

P.S.: named_conf definitions in rc.conf get lost. Here's the patch:
--- etc/rc.d/named.orig 2009-09-13 20:11:34.000000000 +0200
+++ etc/rc.d/named      2009-09-13 21:38:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -264,6 +284,6 @@
  #
  required_dirs="$named_chrootdir"       # if it is set, it must exist
  pidfile="${named_pidfile:-/var/run/named/pid}"
-command_args="-u ${named_uid:=root}"
+command_args="-c $named_conf -u ${named_uid:=root}"

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