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

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Qi,

On Friday 13 December 2013 11:09:01 Qi.Chen at 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,
> /etc/login.defs from the shadow package is not treated as a config file.
> Another example is the base-files recipe. We set the CONFFILES variable, but
> it's not a complete list. Basically, all files under /etc should be treated
> as config files for this recipe.
> 
> Such mistakes are not easy to find, because when we add or upgrade a recipe,
> we usually only test whether it functions well, we don't take into
> consideration the on-target upgrade process.
> 
> So we need to improve the situation here.
> 
> This patchset consists of two patches. The first one is the main patch which
> changes the way CONFFILES is handled in our project. The second one serves
> as an example how to fix individual recipes.
> 
> As almost all files under /etc should be considerred as config files, we
> don't need to modify a lot of recipes after the first patch. Take shadow as
> an example. We don't need to modify that recipe after this change. The ones
> that need to be paid attention to are those that set CONFFILES in their
> recipes. The second patch serves as an exmple how to fix this.

This definitely sounds like a good idea, but do we need to give special 
consideration to /etc/init.d/ since files under there aren't really 
configuration files?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre