Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:43:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509202043.NAA07047@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199509201159.EAA04965@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Sep 20, 95 04:59:24 am
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> (4) Same as (3), but use the current ${PREFIX} (usually /usr/local or
> /usr/X11R6)
>
> - Same NFS problem
> - PREFIX and X11BASE now defined in two locations (bsd.port.mk and
> sysconfig)
>
> My opinion is that due to the first reasons on their respective lists,
> options (2) and (3) are infeasible. I don't have any problem with
> ports touching /etc (that directory is hardly sacred, and is one of
> the things you need to backup during upgrades anyway) but since there
> seems to be a large contingent of people who feel strongly against it,
> I think it's wise to avoid option (1) too.
>
> That leaves option (4). We can deal with multiple startup dirs
> easily, just a couple more lines of shell programming. And to
> alleviate the second problem, I propose the following:
>
> @ Define LOCAL_PREFIX and X11BASE in /etc/sysconfig
define RCLIST in /etc/sysconfig
RCLIST= ${LOCAL_PREFIX}/etc/rc.d ${X11BASE}/etc/rc.d
for PATH in $RCLIST
do
for FILE in $PATH/*.sh
do
if [ -x $FILE ]
then
sh -c $FILE start
fi
done
done
The problem with this is you cannot interleave operations..
ALL scripts in X11BASE are executed after ALL scripts in LOCAL_PREFIX
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