Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:44:45AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 04:52 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > No, really - please *do* do this. The fact that a lot of the software
> > coming out of RedHat development seems to be designed solely for their
> > use, including working around the missing/broken features of RPM, is
> > seriously annoying. Configuration belongs in /etc, we know this. We
> > have a well-designed and implemented set of tools in Debian based on
> > that standard.
> >
> I agree 100% with the above.
>
> On 05/10/2012 05:22 AM, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > Josh Triplett provided multiple technical reasons why etc-overrides-lib
> > is preferable. The ONLY technical reason you gave to prefer traditional
> > conffiles was that there already is a "set of tools" for that in Debian.
> >
> No, it's because this way, I am warned by the package manager of a change
> on the default file, and I can merge by hand when I see it. Otherwise, you
> are silently changing the default, and potentially, I will miss the new
> options.
>
> Besides this, configuration files in /etc is written in the stones of
> our bible^Wpolicy-manual.
Has anyone argued for having the configuration files anywhere else?
It's all in the semantics of course, but to me, the configuration files
are the files that the administrator changes to change a configuration.
The files that go in /lib are the defaults. If the admin wants to
override something they do so in /etc, just like before.
If the old file in /lib isn't equal to the new file being installed to
/lib, and there's a user supplied file in /etc rather than just the
default (which would only include the version in lib), then prompt the
user. If the user is running a non-interactive upgrade, fire off an
e-mail or something. For any major changes to the /lib files (stuff
that are likely to trigger user actions), NEWS.Debian should of course,
as usual, contain a heads up.
Just because something isn't supported currently in our tools doesn't
make it impossible to support it. And debian-policy isn't set in stone.
Otherwise it wouldn't have last been revised in February 2012 :)
Regards, David Weinehall
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