Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:11:06 -0700 From: Mike Makonnen <makonnen@pacbell.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@elischer.org, gordon@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rcNG rollout in -current Message-ID: <20020617021106.7aa4ef86.makonnen@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <3D0D0C4A.2B1B3102@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206160957270.28471-100000@smtp.gnf.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206161310030.10794-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020616224017.A52976@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3D0D0C4A.2B1B3102@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:08:10 -0700
Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> > Hmm. When is the existing /etc/rc* system going to be officially
> > deprecated? Has anyone thought about that? At the moment it sounds
> > like 5.x is going to ship with the new system, and without the old one.
>
> Yes, the reasoning is that since the goal is to have the new stuff doing
> exactly what the old stuff does, there's no reason not to just get it
> over with.
Yes, this is why I've been dissapointed with the dearth of testers. I've tried to
set it up so that when you switch on rcng, nothing will break. For that we
need lots of testers (especially those that are opposed to rcng) so they can
tell us if switching it on breaks something. There are
a few compatibility knobs in rc.conf (like named_rcng) and scripts ( like
/etc/rc.d/{othermta, local}) so that people can change over painlessly. The
plan is to leave these compatibility knobs and scripts in 5.0, and mark the
current knobs they're designed to work around as deprecated.
That should give people enough time to fix local installations before
they are removed in 6.0.
Cheers,
Mike Makonnen.
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