Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:03:35 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com>, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eventually a must-have pkg feature missing... Message-ID: <1443456215.1792119.395576609.40D265B8@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1443017533.86115.YahooMailBasic@web140901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1443017533.86115.YahooMailBasic@web140901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, at 09:12, Jeffrey Bouquet via freebsd-ports wrote: > Compounding the problem: > The machine here is usually not running during the nightly pkg backup. > You've described a key reason* launchd was created in OSX and why people want it imported into FreeBSD. It offers a plethora of features including the ability to intelligently decide when to run background jobs -- especially based on system activity and availability. You can't reliably do this with cron jobs; they're too simplistic. I don't know if launchd in base will ever happen, but if it does it would be great to integrate pkg. * This is described in greater detail in the following BAFUG talk: http://www.nextbsd.org/jordan-hubbard-visits-bafug/ -- Mark Felder ports-secteam member feld@FreeBSD.org
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