svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Renato Botelho]

On 05/06/18 15:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 12:13:05PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>> I find it often very useful to do
>>> 	(cd src/etc/rc.d && make install)
>>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in fact contains
>>> non-editable content.  Is this planned to keep working ?
>>
>> The short answer is, no.  All rc.d scripts get moved to the src of the program they start.
>>
>> That said, if there is a big need for this, we can see about options to keep them working.
>>
>> What are you trying to accomplish when you do this?  Just verify the rc.d scripts match your src tree?
> 
> I avoid mergemaster/etcupdate and whatever else. rc.d and /etc/rc,
> /etc/rc.subr /etc/rc.network are not suitable to etc, they are binaries
> provided by the project not for the user editing.
> 
> When upgrading the host, esp. on HEAD, i usually refresh scripts by this
> procedure and avoid any editing and implied conflict resolution for real
> configs.
> 
> Not being able to easily install clean copies of these scripts would
> be very inconvenient and time consuming.

If I understood what Brad is saying, each rc.d script will be installed
by the application it belongs to. So when it's installing SSH it will
also install /etc/rc.d/sshd and you will not need to deal with rc.d
files on mergemaster anymore.

Is it correct, Brad?
-- 
Renato Botelho