[csw-maintainers] Migrating config files from /opt/csw/etc to /etc/opt/csw during package update

[Sebastian Kayser]

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> 3. The actual migration process involving shared/read-only /opt.
>> ("just move it" does not work)
>>
>> I'm mostly concerned with the discussion number 3, as it's blocking my
>> work with three pieces of software (cups, unixodbc and tightvnc).
>> Trygve, since you objected to putting my sample implementation into
>> testing, can you comment on the suggested solutions or suggest one of
>> your own?
>
> Trygve, ping?

My concern with simply placing symlinks in /etc is that it doesn't reduce
the clutter that i feel we have today. Some files reside in /opt others in
/etc. I know there is the definition about what has to go into
/etc/opt/csw and what has to go into /opt/csw/etc, but i see how this
confuses people (including me).

My preference would be to have it all in /etc, i.e. move config files over.

To not break with setup like yours, couldn't we introduce a csw.conf
variable that would indicate such a setup? cswclassutils scripts running
in such an environment would know that they need to behave different.

This way we could focus on having a simple baseline that works with the
traditional "one host" (or "full root zone") setup and treat special
setups in a special way (i don't feel we can fully address all of them
with one single approach). I haven't thought that through completely, but
it might be an alternative approach. Might also turn out to be even more
complex.

Sebastian