Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:52:00 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with packages, and general third party software. Message-ID: <3495.812109120@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:13:17 PDT." <21685.812106797@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <21685.812106797@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >I think that packages have to come with smarter installation scripts is >all. I'd originally envisioned things that way, but it appears that >very few people really use the install scripts for more than whapping >perms and asking simplistic questions. AMANDA can be a lot smarter (as the porter, I am well aware that it is not the best possible use of pkg_add), but amanda can not be installed without a lot of config file editing anyhow (disk lists, tape configs, etc). Adding stuff to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf is something I'd rather leave to the end user as they are really site-specific (especially with AMANDA where the port number is not assigned but chosen by the site admin) Sure, a quick /bin/sh script could do it, but I don't think I want to do that level of config file munging. If nothing else, I got a call from someone yesterday who had re-run sysinstall to try and write out bteasy again (they had had to re-install Win95 after it had eaten itself), and ended up with an /etc which (to quote them): had a junk /etc/services (it only had ftp in it), and most of the perms were wrong. This sort of stuff makes me want to leave /etc WELL ALONE. Gary
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