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

Richard Purdie
2016-01-15T11:12:25Z

On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 18:29 -0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> There are a lot of binary packages have files in /etc/, but only a
> few
> of them have set CONFFILES, more than 180 packages are not set in a
> world build. So treat all the files in /etc/ as CONFFILES as Debian
> does:
> - All the files in /etc/ are CONFFILES
> - Move the file out of /etc/ if it is not a conffile
> - If /etc/foo can't be moved out, and is changed during
> runtime, then create a symlink /etc/foo -> /var/foo
>
> [YOCTO #8436]
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> ---
> meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

We have discussed this before and we decided that setting CONFFILES
globally seemed like a bad idea?

What has changed since the last discussion?

Cheers,

Richard