Subject: Re: netatalk and pkg/9948
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/12/2000 12:07:18
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

>         I'm looking to address pkg/9948 which complains that
> host-specific config files are being stored in /usr/pkg/etc, which is
> supposed to be a shareable directory.  I'm changing netatalk to look
> for config files in /etc/netatalk instead of /usr/pkg/etc.  This is
> similar to how net/samba and security/sudo deal with host-specific
> config files.
> 
> 	Is this change acceptable?  Will this cause an unacceptable
> amount of pain for current users of net/netatalk?

I think we should do something to help upgrading users. Say a post-install
script which checks to see if config files are in /usr/pkg/etc and not
/etc/netatalk. If so, it either copies them, or says that the admin should
copy them.

Take care,

Bill