[4348] in testers
rc.conf lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 22 16:48:18 2000
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200004222048.QAA22597@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
So, right now, if rc.conf changes in athena-base, two things go wrong:
* We lose all of the machine's configuration information
* A bunch of varibles from other packages stop being defined
The %triggerin changes will fix the second problem, but not the first.
One option is to stop treating rc.conf as a configuration file, and
treat it more like /etc/athena/version--that is, inaugurate it in
athena-base. This would make some the rc.conf-related parts of the
%triggerin changes wrong.
