Re: [PATCH 1/4] packaging: allow globs in CONFFILES

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 12/19/2014 07:21 AM, Chen Qi wrote:
 > ...
> As almost all files under /etc are basically configuration files, we
> provide a default value for CONFFILES.
>
>      CONNFFILES = "${sysconfdir}"

This is going to hurt a lot of recipes. Please do not set this.

The default has always been that CONFFILES is empty. I see no reason 
whatsoever to suddenly change this.

> In this way, we don't need to modify every recipe to set the CONFFILES
> variable. Of course, setting CONFFILES in recipes take precedence over
> the CONFFILES. For example, if the recipe author decides that package A
> should only treat files under ${sysconfdir}/default/ as config files,
> he/she can write like this.
>
>      CONFFILES_A = "${sysconfdir}/default"
>
> The above situation should not be common. As according to FHS, the /etc
> directory is a place for all system related configuration files.

FHS may have written that somewhere, but if you just take a quick look at what 
is in /etc/, you'll find that actual configuration files are quite rare, but 
there are tons of scripts and distro related files there. Whether or not a 
file there is supposed to be edited by the end-user is something of a distro 
decision.

Also, "configuration file" does not necessarily mean that the USER is in 
control. A configuration file may also simply distinguish machine capabilities 
or software features.

We'll end up having to patch hundreds of recipes with a CONFFILES="" or 
similar line.


Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert


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