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Date:      Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:49:44 -0600
From:      Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, "src-committers" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc
Message-ID:  <1528397384.4013734.1400124584.7FDF6485@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <c0214c8f-25cf-1dc0-7d4f-bb0030160794@wemm.org>
References:  <201806061833.w56IXWBC006288@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <1528315608.25377.3.camel@freebsd.org> <c0214c8f-25cf-1dc0-7d4f-bb0030160794@wemm.org>

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On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On 6/6/18 4:06 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
>=20
> > On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 11:33 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:39:00AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> >>>>> 06.06.2018 1:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I find it often very useful to do
> >>>>>>>>  =C2=A0(cd src/etc/rc.d && make install)
> >>>>>>>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in
> >>>>>>>> fact
> >>>>>>>> contains> > >>> non-editable content.=C2=A0=C2=A0Is this planned=
 to
> >>>>>>>> keep working ?
> >>>>>>> The short answer is, no.=C2=A0=C2=A0All 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?=C2=A0=C2=A0Ju=
st
> >>>>>>> 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.
> >>>>> I found that "mergemaster -iFUP" deals with unchanged files
> >>>>> including mentioned rc* scripts just fine.> > That is, it
> >>>>> automatically refreshes unchanged files without any
> >>>>> silly questions just for change of $FreeBSD$.>
> >>>> No, you missed the point.=C2=A0=C2=A0Whatever nice is the handling of
> >>>> unchanged files,> use of mergemaster forces me to handle changed
> >>>> files, which is exactly> what I do not want/need to do.=C2=A0=C2=A0Y=
es, I
> >>>> update crashboxes very
> >>>> often, and> I want to get all new code, including the startup
> >>>> scripts, when
> >>>> I update.
> >>> The startup scripts will be installed as part of installworld.
> >> 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.
> >>
> > I don't understand the drama over this.=C2=A0=C2=A0rc.d startup scripts=
 are
> > *binaries*. Users are not expected to modify the system installed
> > binaries, and if they do, it is expected that the next installworld
> > will replace them with the system binaries again.
> >
> This is not the case.=C2=A0 Example: /etc/rc.d/serial
>=20
> Other random examples of things installed by etc/Makefile that are=20
> expected to be merged rather than spammed as part of an installworld:
> etc/ttys
> etc/inetd.conf
> etc/dhclient.conf
> etc/login.conf
> etc/sysctl.conf

Yes, this discussion is purely about rc stuff.


Regards,
Brad Davis




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