From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 13:28:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25893 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25837 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA01167; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:57:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 07:56:03 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Feb-99 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > A package definition file that doesn't change when another package is > added. > To generate a script which does not require "make"-like complexity at > startup run time. > To use a "language" that is friendlier than that of "sh" Hmm.. any ideas for format? A shell script which does the starting/stopping/etc could also return the dependencies (ie samba.sh dependencies) of the package. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message