svn commit: r329126 - head/etc/devd

[Allan Jude]

On 2018-02-11 18:46, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
>> On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 10:20 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Author: ian
>>>> Date: Sun Feb 11 16:35:56 2018
>>>> New Revision: 329126
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329126
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> ? Regenerate devd/usb.conf after the recent addition of several new
>>>> device IDs.
>>>>
>>>> Modified:
>>>> ? head/etc/devd/usb.conf
>>>
>>> If this file is machine generated and not an administrator
>>> configuration file, shouldn't it live in /usr/share instead of /etc,
>>> per hier(7)?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Conrad
>>>
>>
>> I wonder if that question would apply to all five files we put in
>> /etc/devd? ?It looks like they could be moved to /usr/share with
>> minimal fuss by adding that directory to the search list in
>> /etc/devd.conf.
> 
> Moving this to /usr creates a cyclic issue in that you then need
> /usr to be mounted before devd can start and devd's /etc/rc.d file
> says:
> # PROVIDE: devd
> # REQUIRE: NETWORKING
> # BEFORE: mountcritremote
> # KEYWORD: nojail
> 
> In the diskless and nfs shared /usr worlds devd wants to start
> before /usr is mounted.
> 
>> I'm agnostic about the value of moving them. ?Users can configure local
>> rules by modifying the existing devd.conf and files in devd/ and
>> dealing with mergemaster on updates, or by adding their own new files
>> in devd/.
> 

Maybe the correct place is /etc/defaults/devd/ then?

-- 
Allan Jude

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