Re: /etc /usr/etc: solution?
>
> So you want me to "move them back and delete them here" just because you
> "really don't want to copy conffiles into /etc every time you install a
> new program" ?!
>
> I also happen to be a sysadm. and the reason in the 1st place I considered
> moving from Slackware to an other distribution was the scatering of the
> conffiles (slackware have conffiles in /etc, /usr/lib, /var/lib, etc...)
>
> I think having conffiles outside /etc:
>
> 1/ is not FSSTND/FHS compliant.
>
> 2/ is a feature interesting for very few people (not to many people use
> /usr NFS mounted, not to mention it's slow)
>
> 3/ makes configuration backups a nighmare.
>
> 4/ I don't think it's wise/fair to ask our users to "move here and delete
> there" because a few people happen to use NFS /usr mounts.
>
> If you want to administrate a large number of machines, cfengine
> is the solution, moving config files around is not.
>
I can't agree more.
I just don't understand the reason why this thread is so active. I
can't beleive so many people experienced the problems of poor sysadmin
over the network of 100's hosts with NFS mounted /usr, who prefer to
write tons of messages instead of simple script to automate hard task
of updating /etc on different machines.
(Sorry Vadim if this offends you, I don't mean it. This is just the
level of my understanding.)
We do have the problems which would affect all of us though.
What is that story of compiling package in -altdev environment using
altgcc with result depending on libc6 libraries? (Joost ? )
This might be much more important in current situation, 'cause
it would affect ALL users and not only large network sysadmins.
Thank you.
Alex Y.
> Cordialement,
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