Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Change the way of handling CONFFILES

2013-12-16 Thread Burton, Ross
On 13 December 2013 17:18, Enrico Scholz enrico.sch...@sigma-chemnitz.de wrote: A lot of projects (especially from the freedesktop edge) are (ab)using /etc to store non configuration files. E.g. all the dbus confguration or gconf schemes are not intended to be modified by users. DBus

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Change the way of handling CONFFILES

2013-12-15 Thread ChenQi
On 12/14/2013 12:51 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi Qi, On Friday 13 December 2013 11:09:01 qi.c...@windriver.com wrote: It's a very common situation in OE/Yocto that the recipe authors/maintainers either forget to set the CONFFILES variable or set it wrong. For example, we don't have CONFFILES

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Change the way of handling CONFFILES

2013-12-15 Thread ChenQi
On 12/14/2013 01:18 AM, Enrico Scholz wrote: qi.chen-cwa4wttnnzf54taoqty...@public.gmane.org writes: As almost all files under /etc should be considerred as config files, A lot of projects (especially from the freedesktop edge) are (ab)using /etc to store non configuration files. E.g. all the

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Change the way of handling CONFFILES

2013-12-13 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi Qi, On Friday 13 December 2013 11:09:01 qi.c...@windriver.com wrote: It's a very common situation in OE/Yocto that the recipe authors/maintainers either forget to set the CONFFILES variable or set it wrong. For example, we don't have CONFFILES set in the shadow recipe. As a result,

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Change the way of handling CONFFILES

2013-12-13 Thread Enrico Scholz
qi.chen-cwa4wttnnzf54taoqty...@public.gmane.org writes: As almost all files under /etc should be considerred as config files, A lot of projects (especially from the freedesktop edge) are (ab)using /etc to store non configuration files. E.g. all the dbus confguration or gconf schemes are not

[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Change the way of handling CONFFILES

2013-12-12 Thread Qi.Chen
From: Chen Qi qi.c...@windriver.com It's a very common situation in OE/Yocto that the recipe authors/maintainers either forget to set the CONFFILES variable or set it wrong. For example, we don't have CONFFILES set in the shadow recipe. As a result, /etc/login.defs from the shadow package is not