<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">The Debian package I have been using actually does put the configs in /etc/bird which makes sense, as it's basically a normal Debian in the eyes of the package.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>You <i class="">can</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> make a package though, where everything lives under /config, preferably /config/opt - right?</span></div><div><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Like I said: Not a good idea to have your routing-engine and -config wiped after a software update.</span></div><div><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div>You can, however, put a "normal" BIRD install package into /config/data/firstboot/install-packages and have a script in /config/scripts/firstboot.d which may restore the config file (or a symlink to /config/bird.conf, which also survives the big culling). In that case the package gets re-installed early during the first boot after a FW update (and the script called).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If the BIRD distribution depends on other packages, those also need to go into /config/data/firstboot/install-packages.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>And of course you need to have scripts updating the packages in /config/data/firstboot/install-packages, when you update them ...</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-c</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>