From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 15:48:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64ED416A4CE; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:48:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman.arcor.de (postman4.arcor-online.net [151.189.0.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAB443FBD; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:48:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eik@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (p5080B477.dip.t-dialin.net [80.128.180.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAUNlp42002079 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:47:53 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3FCA81A7.9080508@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:47:51 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Andreas Klemm cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA and related ports issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:48:05 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Andreas Klemm wrote: > >>I have a better idea, then we perhaps need something like a wrapper >>script that is part of the FreeBSD basic system under /etc/rc.d that >>checks for the start script under $LOCALBASE/etc/rc.d and starts it very >>early. > > Hmm. I talked with Gordon about this issue some last night, but he > pointed out a snag: most installs of FreeBSD place /usr on a separate > partition from /. The rcNG ordering decision is made before /usr is > mounted, as /usr is mounted as part of the pieces kicked off by rc.d. So > it would be a fairly large departure from the current implementation of > the rcNG code to reevaluate the ordering once more directories were > available in which to find scripts to run. Not that it's not doable, but > we need to think about it carefully (and, unfortunately, it's not as easy > as simply adding /usr/local/etc/rc.d to the list..) In PR conf/56736: I suggested something like that: evaluate rcorder, execute till a certain point, the reevaluate and continue exection. If you are interested I can modify the patch to do just that. -Oliver