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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: gryphon@healer.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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>From patl@asimov.volant.org Wed Sep 27 10:19:47 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:18:36 -0700
To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, peter@taronga.com
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From: patl@asimov.volant.org
|>  Either you have an automated means to do this, or you don't.

> True.  But consider what happens if you then install something that
> has a startup dependancy on having an SMTP server running.  If it
> is using a fixed sequence number, it doesn't care what the SMTP
> server is called; it just assumes that any replacement will use the

The makefile concept done a little carefully takes care of this:

We have the mail depenendcy be

	smtp-daemon: sendmail $SENDMAIL_ARGS

	package: smtp-daemon

Now it doesn't care what the smtp-daemon target does, as long as
it executes successfully. (This assume compatibility between the
two different SMTP daemons for package purposes, but if you don't
have that the point is moot anyway).

-coranth

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