Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:21:17 +0200 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Alberto Mijares <amijaresp@gmail.com>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSuswkJNuwhT=o%2B7sBQpbaN0-jhnRK5drugqZw54%2BqzgzA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53C82EC4.8060304@gmail.com> References: <CAG=rPVcyqq2072%2BgF_X91BocxykJB6%2BU0cMhaNexxfVFpVqUbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=p6-7KCL8C09O4dPq04pitW5wDbtsDAyz-u4Qtr7rpRA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGZBXN8-Gq1=w8SBHCw26ZX4a29KHBx%2B4FV9XGK1HJiCOGuJ9A@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=8uAXqmX8D%2BoP%2B63dHWVKN6cn8wBH0HNsVmUciNRF1BA@mail.gmail.com> <53C82EC4.8060304@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/17/14 13:12, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 17 July 2014 13:03, Alberto Mijares <amijaresp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> 3) The binary packages need to work out of the box
> >>> 4) .. which means, when you do things like pkg install apache, it
> >>> can't just be installed and not be enabled, because that's a bit of a
> >>> problem;
> >>
> >>
> >> No. Please NEVER do that! The user must be able to edit the files and
> >> start the service by himself.
> >
> > Cool, so what's the single line command needed to type in to start a
> > given package service?
>
> Aren't sysrc(8) and service(8) for this kind of stuff?
>
They sure are.
Well, pkg install $service ; sysrc ${service}_enable="YES" would do.
Although some services have different names than the packge, which is sort
of annoying.
I wouldn't mind though if pkg via dialog or some such mechanism asked if
wanted it enabled. Or via pkg-message told me howto enable it.
/A
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