Re: Making powerd=YES default

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2011, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> On 01.08.2011 18:57, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > I suggest making the contents of /etc/defaults/rc.conf be
> > machine-dependent.  [...]
>
> So I came back to this idea, but implemented it a bit differently. See
> the patch attached.
>
> In essence, /etc/defaults/rc.conf includes an arch file (conditioned on
> its presence), etc/defaults/rc.arch.conf. This file is found under
> src/etc.MACHINE/rc.arch.conf.
>
> At install time, if present, it's installed as a regular config file.

That's not an implementation of my idea.  My idea is to give the 
end user a single /etc/defaults/rc.conf file.

If merging file fragments at build time is too complex, then you 
could make a decision at run time, since /etc/defaults/rc.conf is 
a shell script:

    case "$(/sbin/sysctl -n hw.machine_arch)" in
    foo|bar|baz) powerd=YES ;;
    *)           powerd=NO ;;
    esac

--apb (Alan Barrett)