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On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:28 -0800, Alfred Morgan wrote:
> It seems that set_rcvar in /etc/rc.subr checks OSTYPE and checks for
> NetBSD and would set rcvar to something different (without the _enable
> appended)
> 
> p.s. when I said OpenBSD in my first email I ment NetBSD.
> 

ahhh, okay.  I was a little confussed when I saw the mention of
retaining compatability with OpenBSD. :)

Tom

> -alfred
> 
> Tom McLaughlin wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:36 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >   
> > > On 15/3/06 19:15, "Alfred Morgan" <alfred.morgan@experclick.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >     
> > > > In this document:
> > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.h
> > > > tml
> > > > 
> > > > Can we change:
> > > > 
> > > > rcvar=${name}_enable
> > > > 
> > > > to be :
> > > > 
> > > > rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> > > > 
> > > > so that it would be a good example how to be other OS (OpenBSD)
> > > > compatible as well.
> > > >       
> > 
> > OpenBSD doesn't use rcNG.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> >   
> > > If that's the accepted way for FreeBSD ports to do it, sure.
> > > 
> > > If not, then we need to get buy in from our ports guys first - ports guys?
> > > 
> > > Ceri
> > >     
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