[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] package/mender: populate the mender.conf template

[Mirza Krak]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:13:35 +0200, Mirza Krak wrote:
>> Options are provided for the Mender configuration and the
>> default values should work together with a Mender demo
>> environment.
>>
>> https://docs.mender.io//getting-started/create-a-test-environment
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at northern.tech>
>
> I'm sorry, but no. We are not going to add gazillions of options to
> each and every package to be able to configure the zillions of possible
> knobs that can be configured. We are not going to add options to create
> virtual hosts in Apache or Lighttpd, we are not going to add options to
> enable/disable each and every cipher in OpenSSH, etc.
>
> The point of Buildroot is to provide a reasonable default mender.conf,
> and let user override it with their own configuration file as part of a
> root filesystem overlay.

Got it.

-- 
Mirza Krak | Embedded Solutions Architect | https://mender.io

 Northern.tech AS | @northerntechHQ