From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 17:20:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF48916A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:20:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8736D43D45 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:20:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so116000rnl for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.126.73 with SMTP id y73mr106769rnc; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff04081710207a373e03@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:20:06 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel To: Jan Srzednicki In-Reply-To: <20040817155856.GA28897@miranda.expro.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040816155653.GA2405@rogue.acs-et.com> <20040817080812.GF37212@miranda.expro.pl> <790a9fff0408170809f006b57@mail.gmail.com> <20040817155856.GA28897@miranda.expro.pl> cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports (without touching localpkg) X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Scot Hetzel List-Id: Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:20:14 -0000 On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:58:56 +0200, Jan Srzednicki wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:09:25AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:08:12 +0200, Jan Srzednicki wrote: > > > > > > That's why my suggestion would be: /etc/rc.d/local/ (or > > > /etc/rc.d/ports/, or whatever you want to call it). In this way you can > > > easily separate both directories, and as new-style ports rc-scripts have > > > to be placed in the new location, there is absolutely no confusion about > > > them. Old scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d would be run with localpkg as > > > they have been before. > > > > > Except this breaks for people who are NFS mounting /usr/local from > > another machine, as the startup scripts are on the machine where the > > port was originally installed, instead on in local/etc/rc.d. Which is > > one of the purposes of putting them into local/etc/rc.d in the first > > place. > > That can easily be fixed by a global make option (in /etc/make.conf) > that would not install anything in /etc/rc.d/local/ and use old-style > /usr/local/etc/rc.d, even if the system supports /etc/rc.d/local/. So it > brings us to two make options - INSTALL_RCD and IGNORE_INSTALL_RCD (just > a naming suggestion). /etc/rc.d/localpkg won't go away, so this seems to > me to be a good solution. > There is still no need to have the ports system install the startup scripts into /etc/rc.d/ or /etc/rc.d/local. If you have a look at the NetBSD ports startup scripts, at the top of each script is a comment that says to move the file.sh to /etc/rc.d/file, if you wish to have them participate in rcorder. It is best to leave the moving of these scripts up to the individual administrator.