Installing configuration files - Was: Add systemd unit file for nscd

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 05/11/2013 08:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 11/05/13 14:44, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Friday 10 May 2013 19:57:13 Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 11/05/13 01:42, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>> On Friday 10 May 2013 02:22:59 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>>>>> A future followup patch could install these files - and then we should
>>>>> change the path as well.
>>>>
>>>> that suggestion (and patch) was posted previously and decided to not do
>>>> it
>>>
>>> Can you point me to that discussion?  I have searched and am unable to
>>> find this.
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-09/msg00098.html
>
>
> What I get from that thread, all distribution maintainers we in favour
> of installing nscd.conf and gai.conf (not nsswitch.conf) by default.
> And they are already distributed in the packages supplied by most
> distributions.  So installing them reduces the packaging overhead for
> most distro maintainers as it saves them manually installing these files.
>
> The reject email [1] has two points:
>
> #1) nscd.conf needs customised.  Not really a good point as it appears
> most distros ship it as is or do a minor sed on it.  Also not installing
> it means an individual has to figure out the defaults or create the
> entire file from scratch.
>
> #2) installing gai.conf slows everything down.  The default file is all
> comments, so on the first read it is just skipping all lines - so a slow
> down there.  From then on it is cached and not read unless it changes.
>   Also, most distros ship this, so the slowdown is already present.
>
> I think that patch would be fine to be pushed under the community
> agreement model we use in glibc now and should be revisited...
>
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-10/msg00002.html

The patch needs to be extended - on system with systemd, I install an 
nscd service file and not an nscd init file.

I would be fine with installing them,

Andreas
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