[OE-core] [PATCH 1/8] bitbake.conf: set CONFFILES by default

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 18:29 -0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> There are a lot of binary packages have files in /etc/, but only a
> few
> of them have set CONFFILES, more than 180 packages are not set in a
> world build.  So treat all the files in /etc/ as CONFFILES as Debian
> does:
> - All the files in /etc/ are CONFFILES
> - Move the file out of /etc/ if it is not a conffile
> - If /etc/foo can't be moved out, and is changed during
>   runtime, then create a symlink /etc/foo -> /var/foo
> 
> [YOCTO #8436]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

We have discussed this before and we decided that setting CONFFILES
globally seemed like a bad idea?

What has changed since the last discussion?

Cheers,

Richard