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Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2013 18:13:43 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cron(8) improvement
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On 9 November 2013 17:58, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> wrote:

> Well, if the rc.conf config is specific to the daemon being installed by
> the package, then the existing /etc/rc.conf.d/ system works fine, it
> just falls down a little on xorg configuring hald, unless you just make
> the xorg package create /etc/rc.conf.d/hald and /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus

If I install hal/dbus, why wouldn't they themselves populate
/etc/rc.conf.d/hald and /etc/rc.conf.d/dbus ?

If there are hal/dbus options that need configuring by other packages,
then sure, you'll need to add some other things too.

> I like the simplicity of rc.conf, and I would much rather not involve an
> sqlite database, I am not sure how that could possibly be faster then
> sourcing an extra shell script.

Don't focus on that. The sqlite example is just that - an example -
showing what kind of operations you would want to implement to _allow_
you to do that. I'm not advocating for doing it in freebsd-base.

The point I'm making is this:

* when populating rc.conf.d/, don't just do 'cp' in a post-install script
* when populating the cron daemon entries in rc.cron.d, don't just
'cp' in a post-install script.


-adrian



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