Excerpts from Mike Watters's message of Thu Jun 18 12:04:51 -0400 2009: > > 1. A single /etc tree (eventually), and not including some of the sfw > > stuff, etc. > a single etc tree can be accomplished with either directory
Not if you take single to mean 'all etc content' Ultimately, I'd like the CSW etc to be nested in the system /etc, which is my 'definition' of single. If you take single to mean single within CSW, then yes, you're right. > > 1. For people sharing out a single install (possibly per $arch) with > > NFS, /etc/opt/csw may make things more difficult, although I'd > > argue that symlinks could work around this quite easily. [For > > people in this situation, would creating symlinks for you?] > symlinks may or may not work if you are trying to run on zones from a single > installation on a global zone. Yes, zones certainly complicate things. As we are zone-free here, I'd appreciate others chiming in here. What is the best way to handle this wrt zones. Does the best option for zone support help or hinder the idea of nfs sharing as a goal? > > 2. Potentially painful for maintainers during the transition. > yes, but I wouldn't consider that a con per se Fair enough. Any change will see some short-term (or long, depending on package update cycle) issues, I guess. It does get tricky though in some cases. Hypothetically take the libxml and docbook packages. If docbook moved etc's first, it would still have to reference the old locations, since libxml is rooted in the old location. When libxml is updated, docbook would need to be updated too, to handle the new location. Shall we start a new thread on users@ then? Any objections? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 GPG Key Id: 8E89F6D2; Key Server: pgp.mit.edu Contact me to arrange for a CAcert assurance meeting.
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