Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d

[Yannick Koehler]

Craig M. Reece wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:48:08PM -0500, Yannick Koehler spoke thusly:
>
>>Guys,
>>
>>	not sure for anyone else but is init.d really need to be protected?
>>	I mean does someone really change files in that directory (other than
>>adding or removing)?
>>
>>	That dir should always get merged.  It would also get really nice of
>>	the portage could detect that no changes has been made to the file since
>>its installation and therefore merge it without any issues.
>>
>>	Like if the protected config file's time were saved in a temp files
>>	that portage would look into before merging to see if the date has or not
>>change since the last install.
>>
>>
>
> Yes it needs to be protected. I, for instance, have my own version of
> pcmcia in there that I don't want stepped on. Also, I have a couple of
> other custom scripts for things not in portage yet; and when they are in
> portage, I want to be able to compare the differences before using one
> or the other.
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The reasoning I have is that those are scripts, and not config files. 
If ... instead of modifying pcmcia script for example like you 
mentionned you were to cp pcmcia pcmcia.modif and rc-update add 
pcmcia.modif default / rc-update del pcmcia default the system would 
work and you'll never get concerned about the new pcmcia scripts.

If you changes those scripts maybe it's even better to tell people about 
your changes as they may get implemented such that the script itself 
read a config files (like net.eth0) so that other people can re-use your 
modifications.

And maybe a user's scripts directory should exists, something like 
/etc/user.d where people can move their custom scripts and the stuff 
behind rc-update would got here first and if it doesn't found the script 
then to /etc/init.d.

Yannick Koehler