Bug 8424 – more flexible /etc/devfsd.d using INCLUDE /etc/devfs.d

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Denys Duchier 2002-09-26 14:15:12 UTC]

Sometimes, a package needs to add configuration lines for devfsd.  For 
example when adding modem support.  Currently, on Gentoo, this must be 
done by editing /etc/devfsd.d, which is inconvenient and brittle (and 
makes unmerging especially difficult). 
 
If instead /etc/devfsd.conf contained a line: 
 
        INCLUDE /etc/devfs.d 
 
then packages could simply add configuration files to directory 
/etc/devfs.d in just the same way that this is done, say, for 
/etc/modules.d 
 
PS: this problem came up when I was preparing the ltmodem ebuild

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-29 07:08:19 UTC]

Its already done on CVS ...