[RFC][Change-Request] Create usefulness in rc.subr etc/rc.conf.d/*.conf namespace.

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Tetlow [mailto:gordon at tetlows.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:32 AM
> To: Devin Teske
> Cc: freebsd-rc at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC][Change-Request] Create usefulness in rc.subr
> etc/rc.conf.d/*.conf namespace.
> 
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> wrote:
> > The solution is to have a script that can tell you these two details:
> >
> > 1. What is the final value of ``*_enable''
> > 2. Which file assigns said final value
> >
> > If you have those two pieces of information, then unraveling a twisted
> > configuration is easier.
> >
> > [Re-]welcome my sysrc(8) script:
> 
> While this is a very cool script, I have to wonder how far we have strayed if
we
> require another tool to tell us how the system is configured.

*cough* sysctl(8) *cough*


> Surely we should be
> aiming for simplicity in our implementation and not something incredibly
> complex.

I modeled sysrc(8) after sysctl(8). If you know how to use sysctl(8), you
already know how to use sysrc(8). I can't make it any simpler.


> After Jason's proposal, we would have the following list of configuration
files:
> 
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> /etc/rc.conf
> /etc/rc.conf.local
> /etc/rc.conf.d/{name}

I suggest we kill the single line above (/etc/rc.conf.d/{name}) in favor of the
below.


> /etc/rc.conf.d/*.conf
> 
> Personally, I think this is too many.


If we make the last line replace the previous declaration, then the list neither
grows nor shrinks, yet becomes simplified.
-- 
Devin

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