On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:47:50PM +0100, li...@rhsoft.net wrote:
> one question:
>
> why are "postfix-files", "main.cf.proto" and "master.cf.proto" below /etc
> since they are not intended to get modified by the admin and hence belongs
> somewhere below /usr?
They are not in "/etc":
$ egrep '(master|main|dynamicmaps)\.cf|postfix-files' conf/postfix-files |
egrep -v '^#' | sort
$config_directory/main.cf.default:f:root:-:644:1
$config_directory/main.cf:f:root:-:644:p
$config_directory/master.cf:f:root:-:644:p
$daemon_directory/main.cf:f:root:-:644:o
$daemon_directory/master.cf:f:root:-:644:o
$meta_directory/dynamicmaps.cf.d:d:root:-:755
$meta_directory/dynamicmaps.cf:f:root:-:644
$meta_directory/main.cf.proto:f:root:-:644
$meta_directory/master.cf.proto:f:root:-:644
$meta_directory/postfix-files.d:d:root:-:755
$meta_directory/postfix-files:f:root:-:644
Rather they are in $meta_directory. I don't set meta_directory to
/etc in my builds. Indeed none of the meta_directory files are
intended to be "configuration" files that are hand-edited. They
should only be modified as a side-effect of package installation
are removal. This includes dynamicmaps.cf{,.d}, which list installed
dictionary plugins.
If there is a complaint here to be made, it is that perhaps
main.cf.default is largely obsolete (duplicates "postconf -d"),
and is perhaps no longer needed in $config_directory.
--
Viktor.
