Re: Problem building fail2ban with PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/etc

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jarle Greipsland <jarle.greipsland%norid.no@localhost> writes:

>> I wonder why you have chose PKG_SYSCONFBASE to be /etc.  I
>> leave it at LOCALBASE/etc.
> Two reasons: It's the default in the pkg_comp-installation, I
> think.  And also, I intend to try and share the /usr/pkg-tree
> with multiple hosts over NFS, and then it makes (some) sense to
> have the configuration files individually configurable per host.
> It may not work out, though.

Reminds me of the late 80s and early 90s!  But your logic makes sense to
me.  Just realize you are on the outside edge of general practice and
thus will run into an elevated rate of bugs.


This is fuzzy, but

  pkgsrc in general has a "only install files in LOCALBASE" norm

  etc files are installed to share/examples/foo and then copied to etc.

  probably INSTALLATION_DIRS should be limited to the tree in examples

My opinion is that only minimal config files should be installed, not
files with tons of commented out stuff, and that over-installation of
documentation wrongly called config is a problem in general.