Jordan Brown wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: >> It's important to not mix configuration with non-configuration. > > And as long as we're beating the config/nonconfig drum: > > When people edit non-configuration files, even if they look editable, > it's a disaster from an upgrade standpoint. Upgrade processes will > expect to be able to overwrite nonconfig files unconditionally. If the > user has changed them, then either those user changes will be lost, or > the upgrade process will fail, or worse. > > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
Indeed. Does it make sense for Solaris to establish a new policy, a directory tree under /, for delivery of non-configuration files? -tony
