On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:18:15 +1100, Simon Burge wrote:

>  [ sorry for the direct CC Hubert & Alistair but I'm not sure if
>    you're both on tech-userlevel ]
>  
>  Summary of the PR:
>  
>  	We currently have three places for skeleton files:
>  
>  	 * /etc/skel: empty
>  	 * /usr/share/skel: dot.cshrc, ...
>  	 * /usr/share/examples/usermgmt: .cshrc, .lgin, ...
>  
>  	useradd(8) manages to pick the empty one as default.
>  
>  Summary of discussion in PR:
>  
>  	Having somewhere that isn't overwritten on upgrades
>  	is good (people customise skel files).  Having two
>  	directories in /usr/share with examples is bad.
>  
>  
>  How about the following approach:
>  
>   + merge /usr/share/skel and /usr/share/examples/usermgmt into
>     /usr/share/skel (I think this name makes more sense than
>     usermgmt).
>   + add a "make distribution" target to share/skel/Makefile to
>     install the examples into /etc/skel.
>  
>  Is this a reasonable comprimise?

Thanks for picking this one up.

Sounds good to me.

Regards,
Alistair

PS. I will try to commit a fix for 11071 today, and pullup 11072 fix onto
branch - if not today, it will be done on Monday.

--
Alistair Crooks (agc@pkgsrc.org)





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