Re: Problem building fail2ban with PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/etc

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Jarle Greipsland <jarle.greipsland%norid.no@localhost> writes:
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> >> 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.
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> 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.
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> This is fuzzy, but
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>   pkgsrc in general has a "only install files in LOCALBASE" norm
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>   etc files are installed to share/examples/foo and then copied to etc.
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>   probably INSTALLATION_DIRS should be limited to the tree in examples
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> 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.


as non-admin I prefer commented examples

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