I could yes, but is that something other people would prefer?
On 14/04/2021 22.29, Clemens Schrimpe wrote:
The Debian package I have been using actually does put the configs in
/etc/bird which makes sense, as it's basically a normal Debian in the
eyes of the package.
You /can/ make a package though, where everything lives under /config,
preferably /config/opt - right?
Like I said: Not a good idea to have your routing-engine and -config
wiped after a software update.
You can, however, put a "normal" BIRD install package
into /config/data/firstboot/install-packages and have a script
in /config/scripts/firstboot.d which may restore the config file (or a
symlink to /config/bird.conf, which also survives the big culling). In
that case the package gets re-installed early during the first boot
after a FW update (and the script called).
If the BIRD distribution depends on other packages, those also need to
go into /config/data/firstboot/install-packages.
And of course you need to have scripts updating the packages in
/config/data/firstboot/install-packages, when you update them ...
-c
