Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:34:57 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: pst@freefall.freebsd.org (Paul Traina), CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/socks5 Makefile Message-ID: <199604250334.LAA00412@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:57:50 MST." <199604241857.LAA05282@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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>> pst 96/04/24 11:31:24 >> >> Modified: net/socks5 Makefile >> Log: >> Incorporate Doug's port changes > >If this includes moving the config files from /usr/local/etc to /etc >it violates the porting requirements layed out for FreeBSD ports collections. >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD Incidently, I'm not happy with this part of the porting rules. Everything under /usr is supposed to be able to be network shared, and some ports put stuff in /usr/local/etc which cannot be shared under any circumstances (eg: ssh). I think it would be better to have a twiddle-able knob somewhere that makes security sensative and/or implicitly "per-host" stuff go to /etc somewhere rather than /usr/local/etc. Note that I'm not asking for this to be the default (like NOMANCOMPRESS, this would make packaging a nightmare), what I'm suggesting is something like a /etc/make.conf variable which defaults something like: PORTS_LOCALETCDIR=$(PREFIX)/etc .. and have things like ssh, socks5, tcp_wrappers, etc use that. Then people like me who want to be able to share /usr and/or /usr/local can simply set it to: PORTS_LOCALETCDIR=/etc (or /etc/ports, whatever). Of course, the variable names are just for the illustration, I'm sure there are better names. Heresy? Cheers, -Peter
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