Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:25:49 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh Message-ID: <20071030212549.GK78526@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710110850090.12203@qbhto.arg> References: <200710090730.l997UEEF042804@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071010002930.GA91077@dragon.NUXI.org> <20071010183542.GA58383@hub.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710101744420.8687@qbhto.arg> <86odf615j2.fsf@ds4.des.no> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710110850090.12203@qbhto.arg>
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Doug, Sorry for the late reply. On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:58:25AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > No one is suggesting removing rc.local, and I would vigorously oppose doing > so. > > As I said in my last message, if users respond to the deprecation warning > with a request not to remove it, we can convert it to being a regular rc.d > script. That way it's only a little dangerous instead of being super > dangerous and potentially fatal. Letting appart the fact that you consider early.sh as a hack, it may still be quite useful as other posts in this thread have shown. What do you think of something like this: /etc/defaults/rc.conf: % inline_early=NO /etc/rc.d/early.sh % if checkyesno inline_early; then % . /etc/rc.early % else % (. /etc/rc.early) % fi Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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