cvs commit: src/etc Makefile

[Peter Wemm]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:57 pm, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:20:56 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> 
wrote:
> >>> Shouldn't this be:
> >>>
> >>>     ln -fhs ../var/named/etc/namedb ${DESTDIR}/etc/namedb
> >>
> >> No.
> >
> > If I mount an alternate filesystem hierarchy somewhere, isn't it a
> > bit useless/dangerous for symlinks to point outside of it?
>
> The attached patch combines the best of the various ideas that have
> been disucssed on this topic.
>
> 1. Incorporates Ruslan's improvements to where things are done
> related to the symlink in src/etc/Makefile.
>
> 2. Incorporates Brian's suggestion to make the link relative. This is
> the best way I can see to make it work as expected in all cases,
> including complete alternate filesystems. It should also solve the
> release engineering problem.
>
> 3. Add a new knob, NO_BIND_MTREE, as suggested by the folks who
> already have stuff in /var/named that they don't want me to mess
> with. :)
>
> 4. Updates make.conf(5) with the new stuff, and corrects a few paths
> that have changed since I last updated it.
>
> If everyone finds this acceptable, I will commit it, and then ask re@
> for permission to MFC it, hopefully before 5-RC1.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this train of thought.
>
> Doug

I still hate the whole thing.  Why can't we have a 'BIND_NO_CHROOT' flag 
or something like that which puts things in the original place?  I 
tinkered around with it before, it wasn't hard to do.  As a bonus, it 
stops mergemaster from trying to destroy a working setup and makes it 
update things in the usual place.  I was also intending to experiment 
with having the BIND_NO_CHROOT flag propagate to defaults/rc.conf so 
that it only needs to be set in a single place.

BTW: the reason I hate this is because I mount /var rw,noexec,nodev on 
my gateway boxes, and everything else readonly after boot. 

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