I would like to move away from the old-fashioned Solaris world of packages editing configuration files (or even hiding it as a one-shot action in some SMF file).
Linux-style Configuration Directories I would like to move toward the current practice done with Linux, where instead of editing configuration files, a package drops a file in the configuration directory. For example, adding a POP server causes file "pop" to be added to directory /etc/xinetd.d/. A parallel for KCF/PKCS11 would be to create directories /etc/crypto/ kcf.conf.d/ and /etc/crypto/pkcs11.conf.d/ and each package, instead of trying to edit kcf.conf/pkcs11.conf (in any manner, pre- or post-install or initial boot), would drop a file in one of these directories. At parse time, instead of just reading /etc/crypto/kcf.conf (or pkcs11.conf), the parser would concatenate the contents of /etc/crypto/kcf.conf and /etc/crypto/kcf.conf.d/* and parse the whole thing (same for pkcs11.conf and pkcs11.conf.d) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
