svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Brad Davis]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Renato Botelho wrote:
> 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?

Correct. 


Regards,
Brad Davis