[Starlingx-discuss] Creating new packages for Initialization / Configuration files

[Penney, Don]

For many of these, using puppet templates will be a viable alternative. There may be cases where a change is needed during installation, and we'd have a couple of options there. In some cases, we may be able to package an override file. Alternatively, we could use the kickstarts to make changes during postinstall, if absolutely necessary. We'd need to look at them case by case to decide what the best option would be.

-----Original Message-----
From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2018 9:35 PM
To: Rowsell, Brent; starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Creating new packages for Initialization / Configuration files


Brent, et al:

There are a number of packages that contain modified configuration files 
that bring in alternate default files and in some cases modified 
initialization scripts.

Currently there are puppet packages that do some configuration 
management. We could continue with puppet for these configurations that 
we want to disengage from the upstream patches, or we can use RPM package.

Thoughts?

Examples of configuration patches from stx-integ/base are:
centos-release (issue files)
iptables (iptables rules)
dhcp
vim (vimrc!)
lighttp
pam
sanlock
shadow
sudo
util-linux

Regarding centos-release Issue files:

As you saw today, I proposed removing the issue* files from a otherwise 
unmodified centos-release package, is there a reason that we need to 
restore those issue files for an Open Source OS Independent project?

Those modified issue files contain legalize that seems appropriate for a 
commercial product, but not sure if makes sense for an Open Source 
project that a downstream OSV or other company would likely modify for 
their use anyway.

Sau!

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