Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:24:51 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> Cc: eik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA and related ports issues Message-ID: <3FC8BA43.1080902@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20031129142508.GA46034@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> References: <200311281553.hASFrURT003309@siralan.org> <86fzg8scn5.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk> <20031129142508.GA46034@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org>
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Andreas Klemm wrote:
>> The following rc.d scripts have been removed and should be
>> deleted from your installation: atm2.sh atm3.sh devdb
>> localdaemons network1 network2 network3. Depending on when
>> you last updated world and used mergemaster(8) you may or
>> may not have problems during the rc boot sequence. The simplest
>> solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then 'mergemaster -i'.
>> The atm2.sh atm3.sh and devdb scripts were removed some time
>> ago, so depending on when you installed -CURRENT these scripts
>> may or may not exist on your system.
>
> I can't recommend doing it this way, since some ports I know
> are writing startup scripts to /etc/rc.d :-/
>
> Cc'd to port maintainer to sanitize this
>
> All openldapXX-server ports do this for example
>
> root@titan[ttyp2]{219} /var/db/pkg grep /etc/rc.d */+CONTEN*
> [...]
> openldap-server-2.1.23/+CONTENTS:@unexec /etc/rc.d/slapd stop 2>&1 >/dev/null || true
> openldap-server-2.1.23/+CONTENTS:@unexec /etc/rc.d/slurpd stop 2>&1 >/dev/null || true
> openldap-server-2.1.23/+CONTENTS:@cwd /etc/rc.d
It's too bad that portlint doesn't catch this. I wonder how hard it
would be to add such detection. It already does some pretty amazing
stuff already.
Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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