tech-pkg: Re: Config files and packages

Subject: Re: Config files and packages
To: David Brownlee <abs@formula1.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/06/2001 01:36:28

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	What do people think of PLISTs including something like :
> 	 @config <example_config> <live_config>
> 	eg:
> 	 @config share/examples/analog/analog.cfg etc/analog.cfg
1) Let's not use etc/default, as people may think that's defaults they
 can change. Let's stick to the "example thing, i.e. either
 share/examples/<pkg> or etc/foo.example (which I'd prefer).
2) We already have something like this in some pkgs:
	 @exec if [ ! -f %D/etc/pinforc ]; then cp %D/share/examples/pinforc %D/etc/; fi
 If you want to replace this with
	 @config pinforc etc/pinforc
 That's fine with me, but only syntactical sugar. We could even do
 a simple substitute from bsd.pkg.mk without changing pkg_*.
 If so, I recomment we use @CONFIG to make a visual difference from
 @-macros built into the pkg_* tools vs. the one(s) in bsd.pkg.mk
3) What do you suggest for deinstallation? Unchanged config files should
 not be left back IMHO, so something like
	 @unexec if ! cmp -s <orig> <config>; then rm <config; fi
 might be in place. It can also simply be added from bsd.pkg.mk
 (check the place where we add @exec/@unexec commands for info files :)
 - Hubert
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