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From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>,
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Subject: Re: MFC of rcNG?
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On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Doug Barton wrote:

> [Moved to -arch, since the cvs-* lists have suffered enough recently.]
> 
> Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 
> > And is this something that can be MFC'd?  I realise it's quite a
> > fundamental change to the startup system, but if it made it in to 4.7 as
> > an alternative (so the default remains the same) it would give people
> > the chance to try it out without needing to run -current.  It also makes
> > it more likely to be covered in the Handbook. . .
> 
> I vigorously oppose making it the default in 4.x at any time... we
> already did one major overhaul of /etc/rc* in RELENG_4, and I don't
> think we should put them through that again. However, if we can get it
> polished sufficiently I wouldn't object necessarily to having it in
> there as an option; BUT, I seriously doubt it'd get to that point in
> time to be useful. 

The only MFC candidate I'd like to see is /etc/rc.subr. This would allow 
the ports collection to use the facilities provided by rcng while not 
making everything dependent on whether you are using CURRENT or STABLE.

Is a version bump a good idea?

-gordon


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