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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:35:55 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336859 - head/sbin/init/rc.d
Message-ID:  <1532885755.61594.122.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.ba85a2c19f614432@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201807290542.w6T5g8rt018138@repo.freebsd.org> <1532873787.61594.107.camel@freebsd.org> <tkrat.ba85a2c19f614432@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 09:59 -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 29 Jul, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 05:42 +0000, Don Lewis wrote:
> >> Author: truckman
> >> Date: Sun Jul 29 05:42:07 2018
> >> New Revision: 336859
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336859
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>   Fix a variable name typo in r336845 that prevented the rc.d scripts
> >>   from being installed in the correct directory.
> >>   
> >>   Resurrect a few rc.d scripts that were prematurely deleted from the
> >>   Makefile by r336845.
> >>   
> >>   Reviewed by:       brd
> >> 
> >> Modified:
> >>   head/sbin/init/rc.d/Makefile
> >> 
> >> Modified: head/sbin/init/rc.d/Makefile
> >> =====================================================================
> >> =========
> >> --- head/sbin/init/rc.d/Makefile     Sun Jul 29 05:14:26 2018        
> >> (r336858)
> >> +++ head/sbin/init/rc.d/Makefile     Sun Jul 29 05:42:07 2018        
> >> (r336859)
> >> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> >>  
> >>  .include 
> >>  
> >> -CONFSDIR=   /etc/rc.d
> >> +CONFDIR=    /etc/rc.d
> >>  CONFGROUPS= CONFS
> >>  
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure CONFSDIR was right here. You are now trapped in a maze
> > of small twisty variable names, all alike.
> 
> Without this change, the rc.d scripts get installed directly under
> /var/tmp/temproot/etc/ and mergemaster wants to delete the scripts under
> /etc/rc.d.  Answering yes to that mergemaster question results in an
> unbootable system.
> 
> I see the following in /usr/share/mk/bsd.confs.mk:
>   ${group}DIR?=   ${CONFDIR}
> but I don't see ${CONFSDIR} anywhere.
> 

You don't see CONFSDIR because it appears as ${group}DIR and with
CONFGROUPS?= CONFS that turns into CONFSDIR. So now the question is why
doesn't setting CONFSDIR work in this makefile, but it works in others?

-- Ian

> After this commit, mergemaster works properly again.
> 
> > CONFGROUPS=CONFS is the default set by bsd.conf.mk, and it's the only
> > one that needs CONF to be singular. Perhaps if we establish the idiom
> > of not re-specifying the default value in all the individual makefiles,
> > that'll leave everything as CONFS* and it'll be a bit less confusing?
> > 
> > -- Ian
> 
> 



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