svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Brad Davis]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, at 1:29 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:02:25PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > ...
> > > So each installworld would wipe over the top of any localmod /etc/rc.d/
> > > and other stuff that mght exist?
> > > One of the reasons that etc/Makefile is detached from Installword is so
> > > that /etc does not get perturbuted unless specifically requested.
> > 
> > Yes, this is by design.
> > 
> > If people need custom tweaks for that stuff they should be upstreamed or
> > moved into /usr/local/etc/rc.d as a custom startup script.
> 
> This is rather questionable design to me.  I don't consider my scripts
> as binaries and like them in /etc/rc.d/ and managed via mergemaster -Fi.
> Everything was perfectly fine with it.  What exactly the problem you're
> trying to solve here?

But they are provided by the system and should not be modified in place.  Hence the suggestion to move them out of /etc.


Regards,
Brad Davis