Re: [gentoo-dev] Why isn't /root/.bash_profile in the stage tarballs?

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 03:03 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> what catalyst should do is just before cleaning up the stage3 root and packing
> it up is run `rsync -a /etc/skel/ /root/`

It definitely should not.  One of my primary motivations with catalyst
is to ensure that the users get *exactly* what would be provided by the
profiles/packages.  We don't add extra files into the stages and likely
never will.  Doing something like this in catalyst would create an
inconsistency between doing a stage3 install and any previous stage
installs.  Yes, we don't support stage1 anymore, but we still support
stage1 users once their systems are up and running.  Having them
inconsistent only causes one more area where we have to do extra
troubleshooting to determine the cause.

> no, this cannot live in baselayout (the package that creates /root/), because
> it cannot be run everytime a user upgrades the baselayout package.  no, it
> cannot be tied to USE=build (used to make stage1) or USE=bootstrap (use to
> make stage2) as the only time the /etc/skel/ -> /root/ sync can sanely happen
> is in the final steps of creating a stage3 ... and there is nothing to
> differentiate the creation of a stage3 from a normal build, nor is there a
> sane way to make sure baselayout is the very last package in the stage3 build
> step

Well, it depends on whether we're interested in getting all of /etc/skel
or just the .bash* files.  About the only thing I would see useful as
"defaults" is the .bash* stuff and a .ssh directory.  I do agree that
everything else should be left up to the user.  If we decided what to
include and limited it, it shouldn't be a problem to do it via USE=build
at all.

Of course, that doesn't answer the question, "Do we want to?"

I have no clue.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation