Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:20:06 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Jan Srzednicki <w@expro.pl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports (without touching localpkg) Message-ID: <790a9fff04081710207a373e03@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040817155856.GA28897@miranda.expro.pl> References: <20040816155653.GA2405@rogue.acs-et.com> <20040817080812.GF37212@miranda.expro.pl> <790a9fff0408170809f006b57@mail.gmail.com> <20040817155856.GA28897@miranda.expro.pl>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:58:56 +0200, Jan Srzednicki <w@expro.pl> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:09:25AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:08:12 +0200, Jan Srzednicki <w@expro.pl> wrote: > > > > > > That's why my suggestion would be: /etc/rc.d/local/ (or > > > /etc/rc.d/ports/, or whatever you want to call it). In this way you can > > > easily separate both directories, and as new-style ports rc-scripts have > > > to be placed in the new location, there is absolutely no confusion about > > > them. Old scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d would be run with localpkg as > > > they have been before. > > > > > Except this breaks for people who are NFS mounting /usr/local from > > another machine, as the startup scripts are on the machine where the > > port was originally installed, instead on in local/etc/rc.d. Which is > > one of the purposes of putting them into local/etc/rc.d in the first > > place. > > That can easily be fixed by a global make option (in /etc/make.conf) > that would not install anything in /etc/rc.d/local/ and use old-style > /usr/local/etc/rc.d, even if the system supports /etc/rc.d/local/. So it > brings us to two make options - INSTALL_RCD and IGNORE_INSTALL_RCD (just > a naming suggestion). /etc/rc.d/localpkg won't go away, so this seems to > me to be a good solution. > There is still no need to have the ports system install the startup scripts into /etc/rc.d/ or /etc/rc.d/local. If you have a look at the NetBSD ports startup scripts, at the top of each script is a comment that says to move the file.sh to /etc/rc.d/file, if you wish to have them participate in rcorder. It is best to leave the moving of these scripts up to the individual administrator.home | help
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