From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 15 19:35:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFF684D for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@allanjude.com) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (beauharnois2.bhs1.scaleengine.net [142.4.218.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB99D22B7 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.1.1] (S01060001abad1dea.hm.shawcable.net [50.70.108.129]) (Authenticated sender: allan.jude@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACBD93E169 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <525D9909.4070206@allanjude.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:35:37 -0400 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: support for "first boot" rc.d scripts References: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org> <89D8FB48-81BA-47CD-BAB9-BB2D448DE9A2@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <89D8FB48-81BA-47CD-BAB9-BB2D448DE9A2@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:35:41 -0000 On 2013-10-15 15:33, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Wonderful! This capability is long overdue. > > On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Colin Percival wrote: >> As examples of what such scripts could do: > More examples: > > I've been experimenting with putting "gpart resize" and "growfs" > into rc.d scripts to construct images that can be dd'ed onto some medium > and then automatically grow to fill the medium. I didn't think of that, that is a 'killer app' for rpi and other such devices, or any kind of 'embedded' image really > When cross-installing ports, there are certain operations > (e.g., updating 'info' database) that can really only be > done after the system next boots. > >> I'd like to get this into HEAD in the near future in the hope that I can >> convince re@ that this is a simple enough (and safe enough) change to merge >> before 10.0-RELEASE. > Please. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Allan Jude