[csw-maintainers] Adjusting $(DIRPATHS) for sparse zones support with shared /opt

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu Jun 18 20:47:22 -0400 2009:

> Lest anyone misunderstand me, i will reiterate that I am still
> completely in favour of the DEFAULT for demons and things, being
> "configs go in /etc/opt/csw".

Understood.

> You can just NFS-share out /opt/csw everywhere, and it will work
> correctly.  If on the other hand, it looks for configs in
> /etc/opt.....  you share out /opt/csw... and then it breaks, until
> you go and have to copy in something to /etc/opt/csw on to **Every
> Single Machine*** you want to run it on.

> Not very large-scale-install friendly.

Large-scale sites are exactly the same types of installations that
would be using cfengine/puppet/etc to manage things like this.

Do you agree that having two etc directories for an installation
without nfs/zone sharing is pointless?

Do you agree that if everything were in /etc/opt/csw and a site wanted
to share their csw install, a move on the server of /etc/opt/csw to
/opt/csw/etc and a symlink of /etc/opt/csw -> /opt/csw/etc on the all
machines consuming this particular /opt/csw would handle things just
fine?  (Packages wanting/needing local customization could still
symlink individual files to somewhere else as you noted.)

I realize that Rupert raised concerns about this, due to restrictions
in his environment, so it might be nice to get his thoughts (or the
thoughts of others in a shared-csw setup) on this.  I'm not in the
position of having to deal with something like this.

It would also be nice, but difficult to determine, how many sites
actually use csw like this.  1%?  5%?  More?  Less?

Thanks
-Ben
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