From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 12 20:46:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65410106566C for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:46:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E905E8FC0A for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4021 invoked by uid 399); 12 Nov 2009 20:46:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.110?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 12 Nov 2009 20:46:08 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4AFC7414.6040100@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:46:12 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4AFBC8B5.3070707@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4AFBC8B5.3070707@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is there any reason to keep sysutils/rc_subr? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:46:09 -0000 I probably should have added to my first post the fact that sysutils/rc_subr was originally added during the introduction of the rc.d system in the base as a mechanism for ports on older systems (to which rc.d would not be backported) to use it. Now that rc.d exists on all supported versions it is obsolete. (I mention this because I received a question about it in private mail.) Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/