From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 66299 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2019 16:56:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 65701 invoked by uid 89); 8 Apr 2019 16:56:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=postinstall, gate, Singles, H*MI:invalid X-HELO: vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:56:46 +0000 Received: from vsmx001.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.191]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EF8C01D4 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Rainer.invalid (unknown [87.185.221.231]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5050930008D for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:56:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: base-files revisited References: Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (John Morrison's message of "Sat, 6 Apr 2019 15:08:12 +0100") Message-ID: <87r2aczb9a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-04/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 John Morrison writes: > I've been asked at work to get the standard base-files extended with > specifics for the company I work for and wondered if this would be a good > time to revisit how the .bashrc file in particular is put together. > > What I was considering would be introducing a ~/.bashrc.d/ folder and > splitting the existing ~/.bashrc file into its component parts; > > * alias.bashrc > * completion.bashrc > * functions.bashrc > * history.bashrc > * shell.bashrc > * umask.bashrc > > and changing .bashrc to source all the *.bashrc files. > > This would allow easier extension of the bashrc with, in my case, company > specific options (proxies, common aliases etc). Been there, done that. You'll end up providing one or more company specific packages either as an overlay repository or merged into a local mirror repository. That is unless you only have a handful of users that either can and actually do follow instructions or you can handhold them during their installations. If you provide a company config package all you need to do is make sure it gets installed last (or arrange for the postinstall to do all the work and move that to a late place). Once you've replaced the default files setup (or rather the respective postinstalls) will keep them untouched. > I was also thinking of taking some more of the sample from > https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/sample-bashrc.html, for example the > colours and some more of the aliases and adding them into the existing sets. None of that strikes me as desirable to enable by default. > Thoughts? > > I think Achim Gratz took over the base-files from me. Achim, are you still > around? Open for a discussion? Tentatively, I'd say what you want to do doesn't belong into base-files. That is supposed to provide a clean starting point (mostly to work around some quirks of how Windows leaves your environment) and treat all POSIX shells the same to the extent possible, not create even more differences than there are out of the gate. There already are hooks in profile to enable your own scripting if that's what you want and anything that is purely bash-specific would need to go into its own package anyway. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple