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Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199509260347.WAA27526@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Sep 25, 95 10:47:08 pm
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> 
> > 	1) Explicit (complex) numbering in the single directory
> 
> Experience shows that the parenthetical (complex) is just not true.
> 
> > 	2) Mirrors of the "init.d" directory into other directories "rcN.d"
> > 		with explicit numbering in those
> 
> This is nice.
> 
> > 	3) Script to  run from that directory  to control order.
> 
> That's where we are now.
> 
> > 	4) Control file.
> 
> That's identical to #3.
> 
> > #2 - You get whole directories of symlinks. Yuk. Lots of headaches.
> 
> A name in a file is a symbolic link, too. Except it's harder to add.
> 
> > #4 Works very simply. Ports can add one line to a config file,
> 
> And where pray tell do they add the line? At the end? Then you might as
> well go back to #1 except now they'll be in random order. And anywhere
> else just doesn't bear thinking about.
> 
> > Why complicate things?
> 
> Dependencies on startup order.
> 

use Make to start the system
each module supplies a file that is included into the master makefile
(which is generated..)

echo "# Hi there.. This is Eddy your Shipboard Computer " >/tmp/boot.mk
for i in /init.mk/*
do
  echo ".include $i" >>/tmp/boot.mk
done
make -k -f /tmp/boot.mk
:)

--------------------------------
cat net.mk

net:	<whatever ifconfig is dependent on>
	ifconfig ....


nsfclient: net
	nfsiod -n 4


heh heh