Re: [PATCH 1/8] bitbake.conf: set CONFFILES by default

Mike Looijmans
2016-01-16T10:51:56Z

On 15-01-16 07:37, Robert Yang wrote:
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> On 01/15/2016 02:27 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> How about /etc/init.d and /etc/rcS.d? Are these now suddenly CONFFILES
>> too?
>
> For /etc/init.d/*, yes, and I think that they should be CONFFILES.

Startup scripts are config files? Wow that's news to me.

They all include /etc/defaults/something for a good reason: So you don't
have to hack the script.

> For /etc/rcS.d/*, they are symlinks which are not owned by pkg,
> but created by update-rc.d.

Only if the recipe happens to use update-rc. Quite some packages don't
use it and just create the symlinks themselves.

As I recall, this suggestion has been made before and was rejected then.
Nothing really changed since.

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Mike Looijmans