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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:08:21 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Shared object "libsodium.so.13" not found, required by "dnscrypt-proxy"
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2015, at 14:19, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I noticed this too, but in that case why doesn't it affect all users?
> (or all the ones using dnscrypt+local_unbound) maybe something changed in
> "NETWORKING" recently?
> >
> > Hum:
> >
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/rc.d/NETWORKING?r1=3D275299&r2=
=3D278704
> >
> > Interesting, as I am using the most recent version which does not
> REQUIRE local_unbound
> >
> > I'm even more confused now :|
> >
> >
> > So it has to come after SERVERS but before local_unbound. But NETWORKIN=
G
> depends on local_unbound they are both dependent on NEWORKING which has t=
o
> be after SERVERS. Can you say fubar! Clearly broken. And this means that
> removing SERVERS will re-shuffle the order more appropriately.
> >
> > It seems that the behavior of rcorder is not as documented as well as
> being undefined when circular dependencies occur. The man page says that
> rcorder aborts when it encounters a circular dependency, but that is not
> the case. It probably is best that it not die, but that leaves things in =
an
> unknown and inconsistant state, which is also a very bad idea. I guess wh=
en
> a circular dependency is encountered, a dichotomy occurs.
>
> Now you know why I=E2=80=99m so curious about all of this stuff.
>
> When I was working on ^/projects/building-blocks, I was able to move most
> of these pieces around by changing REQUIRE: to BEFORE:, but I noticed tha=
t
> it changes the rcorder a bit, so I haven=E2=80=99t been super gung ho in
> implementing my change.
>
> I think there are a couple bugs present on 9-STABLE/10-STABLE/11-CURRENT:
>
> - Things go awry if named is removed/not installed.
> - Things go awry if local_unbound is removed (which would have been the
> case if the rc.d script was removed from your system, which existed befor=
e
> my changes).
> - Other rc.d scripts not being present might break assumptions.
>
> I need to create dummy providers for certain logical stages (DNS is one o=
f
> them) to solve part of this problem and provide third parties with a
> mechanism that can be depended on (I wish applications were written in a
> more robust manner to fail gracefully and retry instead of failing flat o=
n
> their face, but as I=E2=80=99ve seen at several jobs, getting developers =
to fail,
> then retry is hard :(=E2=80=A6).
>
> Another short-term hack:
>
> Install dummy/no-op providers so the ordering is preserved, then remove
> the hacks after all of the bugs have been shaken out.
>
> Thanks!
>

Garret,

Also undocumented (except in rcorder.c) is that the lack of a provider is
not an error. This effectively makes a list of providers into an OR. So,
for name service the normal list is "named local_unbound unbound" and any
will work for ordering and having none is a no-op, so if you don't run any
nameserver (or kerberos or whatever provider), it is not an issue. As long
as rcorder finds a provider, it will be used to set the order, but the lack
of any or all providers just means that the specified provider is ignored
and if a REQUIRES or BEFORE lists no existing providers, the statement is
simply ignored.

The real problem is that there is no defined rule for behavior in the event
of a circular dependency and any change to any decision point in the
ordering process may change the way the ordering flips. That is why these
things are such a royal pain to debug. A change in any rc.d script may
cause the ordering of seemingly unrelated scripts to change, perhaps
drastically, and the error messages, while not misleading, is only a
starting point in tracking this down. This means there may be time bombs
that break working ports without their being touched or even re-installed.
And the triggering change my, itself be correct.
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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