Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:13:01 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@freebs.org, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509262213.SAA18328@healer.com>
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> /var or whatever. All I want is a directory that doesn't get touched
> on an upgrade so that I can drop in a new distribution sans my /home
> partition and my system configuration data and be up and running.
Here we are in agreement. But I think trying to make a read-only
configuration is a lot more hassle than it is worth.
Coming up with a configuration mechanism that allows us to back up
our local changes, drop a new install in, and re-merge the local
modifications, I do think is a good idea.
> I want to have a command line admin utility that can be popen'ed
> by a curses/GUI utility.
> I want to have a curses/GUI utility.
>
> I want to have multiple system administration vi popen of an rsh of
> the command line utility by the same curses/gui utility.
These I agree with. And I think they are independent of the framework.
The best idea I've seen so far is the Makefile concept, which is
built from package data (which comes with each package) and from
the base configuration. The actualy "rc.N" scripts (or directories)
are build using a "mkinitdb" util (just like the whatis database
is built from the man pages using "makewhatis").
Local changes can be kept like package data, and init scripts/dirs
rebuilt. This is the most flexibiity we can give, and still keep
things usable by the majority.
> I want to run from a CD or diskless
Then the CD (or server) has to have to fixed configuration you want.
Period.
-coranth
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