On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Ngie Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2017, at 09:29, Ngie Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On May 13, 2017, at 08:37, Rodney W. Grimes <free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Author: ngie
>>>> Date: Sat May 13 03:10:50 2017
>>>> New Revision: 318250
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318250
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Handle the logfiles in newsyslog and syslogd conditionally, based on
>>>> src.conf(5) knobs
>>>>
>>>> This will allow consumers of FreeBSD to use the unmodified configuration
>>>> files out of the box more than previously.
>>>
>>> What about simply generating proper newsyslog.conf and syslog.conf based
>>> on the the MK_ values rather than change the visible administration
>>> interface that has finger memory, ansible, and puppet support?
>>
>> - My employer doesn't use puppet on its appliances.
>> - Files snapshotted in time bitrot (which was the case with our configs, 
>> which is part of the reason behind this change.

couldn't you have an Isilion config file in the appropriate directory
instead? And use the default newsyslog / syslog config files?

>> - It's really easy to screw up a mergemaster call if you edit the files, and 
>> install the stock version which removes the edits.
>
> Also, programmatically removing the entries means you have to bake the 
> metadata into etc/Makefile, which is already complicated enough as-is.

Why do you care about removing them at all? They are no-ops if the
files don't exist. Why not just always install all these files is
where I'm going with this...

Warner
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