Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:49:50 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OPTIONS, LATEST_LINK, and RCng Message-ID: <403A919E.5010509@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <403A8643.1070500@mac.com> References: <20040223212225.1766.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <403A8643.1070500@mac.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Chuck Swiger wrote: > [...] thanks, btw. > What's more of a concern to me is that variables like USE_RC_SUBR are > used by the ports infrastructure without being documented in the > Porter's Handbook, which perhaps might have avoided this particular debate. That is absolutely unfortunate, you are right. I was looking into parsing what is in bsd.port.mk, to get ate least some of the documentation there into the porters handbook. > I also have concerns about rcNG breaking things because ports which > started up fine before now require an entry in /etc/rc.conf or else they > silently fail, but that problem I had a patch for, if it hasn't gotten > lost in the shuffle... This is another big issue we were discussing today. Do you still have the patch? I don't know if a message at startup is prominent enough... -Oliver
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?403A919E.5010509>