From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 10 02:23:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DBFDEB; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:23:59 +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 5CC342014; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:23:58 +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 450DF46998; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <527EEE3D.9000101@allanjude.com> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:23:57 -0500 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: cron(8) improvement References: <52792B60.1030309@allanjude.com> <527BCA55.2000207@allanjude.com> <527C5D52.7030508@allanjude.com> <047405A8-B6EB-427B-A2E4-6254DD1A077B@orthanc.ca> <3E6377FF-69FE-48E4-BFB1-E5095A7FA1BB@orthanc.ca> <527C6DEF.6020102@allanjude.com> <527E3EB3.6000301@FreeBSD.org> <8034B822-F903-43D1-8BF6-DFAD7C22F5B0@gsoft.com.au> <527ED34A.1060401@allanjude.com> <527EE417.6060704@allanjude.com> <527EE84D.4060901@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nrHsfe2G5jHLkHwrrERj4FnXPAnVwFkNj" Cc: freebsd-current 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: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:23:59 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --nrHsfe2G5jHLkHwrrERj4FnXPAnVwFkNj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2013-11-09 21:13, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 9 November 2013 17:58, Allan Jude 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 mak= e >> 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. ahh, right, why didn't I think of that >> 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 scri= pt > * when populating the cron daemon entries in rc.cron.d, don't just > 'cp' in a post-install script. > > > -adrian If the cron daemon is just scanning /etc/cron.d/* and treating it as if those lines had been appended to /etc/crontab I don't see why you couldn't just cp in the post-install. I think it would be better if you didn't have to 'register' a change. --=20 Allan Jude --nrHsfe2G5jHLkHwrrERj4FnXPAnVwFkNj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSfu4/AAoJEJrBFpNRJZKf/lcP/R56O6PfGHto18/d7UtC8cck jfbdo1s53NcyYwQLMyc67uZaBU7fe+GZtKvoC1rODaDEGaS4oujKRyQEtwgTCnsu 1GsUNnOU4MhZQmJjajiu7cJWzBeoUu2k0V7sobgABsUDAqk7TRzLaee12OeYNRvm +I4UPuLzLUVwFcAepW70ASHzWlv4vGZEE28bQIYsu+LP6/LvG30WWXU9AmzTpXhs GDrfjHiRMuvH4aex5DxkDBJ8KBq9lXjhKU0r9xsdDlY1NtFFRl9Mh6jTbsU7udIr eKX0cYbgTa6zxNuoLz0MYCuNp201CE0GlQYXmYHRDMDLRftj/87dSt/ONMmpiQh6 +i3NYwU8yrJJP6MvjciI19JjlEUJPcOdwUs0nJByUim2DkYfvB88dtVCoikIvcXE 9FSAHOL6njBwo9aqQ18Suifhyz/MJ2QbOClwBFoIBSQXsBpEVLxLWIO6eNRXGd4N GqqHUzYYcPWz8pzCFxYhC7Od3boOqdH0vFoTQ7+h/4wVOsDWrO8z5fVfMcPU70EA 835Hunjowb5YkiDI4zH55T+A2+jYsGd1/eaR+wtoCkJ22MvKEUSdfhtAmFjtvmCw XnZOxMx6M9WNeeZrzy+XtBwiraddWben0ruOkI1g3k59PUvefjRlRZXQ212AQSMk Rz6O9VSGM8MEaTEkeHuJ =ctJr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nrHsfe2G5jHLkHwrrERj4FnXPAnVwFkNj--