Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 23:07:59 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509280307.XAA22964@healer.com>
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>From terry@lambert.org Wed Sep 27 18:45:12 1995
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:36:42 -0700 (MST)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, gryphon@healer.com, hackers@freebsd.org,
jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com
In-Reply-To: <199509272153.RAA22142@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 27, 95 05:53:28 pm
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> > Are the any other problems that the Makefile method does not solve/address?
> The case of the missing dependency.
> If I have package B installed and it depends on package A, but package
> A is not installed, then a make will fail at generation of the package
> A startup, when instead it should fail the generation of the package B
> startup (but still generate a valid rc file).
Actually, it will still generate correctly, but will fail at boot
time since A is not runable.
Which is what I would consider the correct behavior.
-coranth
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