svn commit: r320222 - in stable/10: etc etc/cron.d etc/mtree etc/newsyslog.conf.d etc/pam.d etc/syslog.d tools/build/mk usr.sbin/cron/cron usr.sbin/cron/lib usr.sbin/syslogd

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 6/22/17 4:02 AM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
> > 
> >> On Jun 22, 2017, at 00:35, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> >> Please revert the breakout of the existing config files.  I think that splitting
> >> up the conf files is too disruptive of a change (POLA) for stable branches.
> > 
> > 	Done in r320229 and r320230.
> 
> I haven't checked if this was merged to 11, but if so, I think they should also
> stay a single conf file in 11 for the same reason.


I believe it WAS merged to 10, since that didnt get gated by a request
to RE@, can we please get the splitting of these files backed out
of the stable/10 branch?

> >> This was agreed to by other folks in the followup thread to the commits in
> >> head that you continue to ignore.
> > 
> > 
> >> In head please either fully split up the files or revert to a single file
> >> (another part of that thread you continue to ignore).
> > 
> > 	My eyes glazed over trying to read through all of the posts. I seem to have missed the point where a proposed change was made to split up the config files further. Could this please be summarized again?
> 
> I think that having the files partially split up is the worst of both
> worlds as folks writing config management rules, etc. have to use
> different approaches depending on the rule.  I think that is a headache
> and would rather have the config either be all in a single file, or all
> be split up into conf.d/ so that it is consistent.  I also think that
> when splitting up a conf file we should do it all at once so that there is
> only one painful /etc merge instead of several of them.

> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin
> 
> 

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org