nomenclature for conf files

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 15:51:57 UTC 2012


On 12 Nov 2012 15:35, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:
> >> > It might sound stupid, but I'd like to know if there's
> >> > any difference. Are those 3 line the same?
> >> >
> >> > WITH_KMS=YES
> >> > WITH_KMS="YES"
> >> > WITH_KMS=yes
> >>
> >> With regard to their use in /etc/rc.conf, no, absolutely not.
> >>
> >> In general, from my experience, only the second one will work.
> >>
> >> This might, or might not, be true for other uses, but rc.conf is
> >> pretty picky about this.
> >
> > All three are fine in make.conf and rc.conf
> >
> > The issue with rc.conf is when people put spaces around the = sign.
> >
> > Chris
>
> This has not been my experience - but I will experiment soon and see
> if I can verify.

Anything that complains about any of those syntaxes is a bug.  Please file
a PR if you find any examples.

Chris


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