On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:10:32PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Seblu <seblu@seblu.net> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Earendil wrote:
I have also added the capability to stip th sysctl.conf files in many files in the sysctl.d directory. This idea was inspired by Debian architecture.
Sure, systemd uses this as well. Do we have any cases where distributing a sysctl file with a package is needed? I'm really not sure this is something that's wanted/needed in Arch.
I agree with Dave, if we are going to support this there should be at least one user of it. Are there any packages that either already ship with their own sysctl file, or that would benefit from doing it? As /etc/udev/rules.d, sysctl.d can be reserved for users.
It's a very pratical way of setting system config. Make it a default, is a good advice for users. It will maybe also help packager which want add some systcl param. (chicken or the egg?)
I'm all for it if we have users (packages). I.e. if there are packages that could use this, I'd be happy to merge a patch. A candidate would be any package that instructs the user to add something to sysctl.conf. I have not seen this, but maybe it exists.
Well... ---- $ grep 'sysctl.conf' /var/abs/*/*/*.install /var/abs/community/radvd/radvd.install:add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf: ----
If we start shipping files in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/, then the counerpart in /etc makes sense for user files and as an override mechanism. However, if there are no shipped files, then the user might as well keep all the config in /etc/sysctl.conf.
-t