Re: Modular postinstall(8)

[Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi%yahoo.com@localhost>]

I think this is the way FreeBSD folks have made the bsdinstall scripts.



On 25 Aug 2015 4:00 pm, at 4:00 pm, Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>http://www.netbsd.org/~uebayasi/postinstall.txt
>
>The monolithic postinstall(8) is horribly painful to maintain.  It can
>be a little better by splitting the single script into per-module
>(a.k.a. syspkg).  This hopefully encourages subsystem maintainers to
>update their own postinstall script fragment without touching a
>global, poorly maintained script.  This is much closer to how pkgsrc's
>install scripts work.
>
>Ideally these ``update'' scripts are called not only post-install but
>also pre-install, pre-reboot, post-reboot, etc.  For example, if one
>pre-install script detects something seriously inconsistent, it warns
>administrator and cancels the update.
>
>Well-maintained update scripts could safely migrate users to better
>configurations ("This sshd configuration is outdated and not
>recommended any longer").
>
>The above patch is outdated and should be updated but you can see the
>idea.  You can split files one-by-one.
>
>I don't have time to discuss/work on this right now.
>
>Idea basically ack'ed by lukem@ at EuroBSDCon 2014. :)