Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:31:31 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509281431.KAA24354@healer.com>
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
> One possibility is to abstract the dependencies in the makefile, so that you
> have your package set up like so (I say, use command syntax to make
Definately abstract as much as possible. For example, almost all of the
standard unix sub-systems (nfs-client, nfs-server, mount-remote, mount-local,
mail-agent, name-service, routes, ...) can be abstracted.
> config
> depends-on smtp-server nfs-client
> satisfies sql-server
> name oracle
>
> This also allows the config tool to do a static dependency analysis and
> tell you "snmp-manager requires snmp-service, aborting".
This is an interesting concept. A little more work, but you verify at
config time (rather than boot time) if it is a valid dependency chain.
I don't know how much outside of standard services could really be
abstracted though - except in the case if interdependent packages,
which could come up with abstractions names within that group.
Which is most of what you need to worry about anyway...
I like it.
-coranth
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