From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 13:45:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA29960 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:45:29 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29941 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:45:25 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA13263; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:40:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509282040.NAA13263@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:40:15 -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: <199509281842.OAA24987@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 28, 95 02:42:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1020 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Failing to boot is NEVER correct behaviour. NEVER. > > OK. So, under the SysV mechanism (S##foo) , if I put in Package B, and not > put in Package A (which B depends upon) what is the correct behavior? Don't run the packages is the best behaviour. Run the packages and have the run fail without failing subsequent components is acceptable behaviour. > How much is going to run? As much as can run, hopefully. > By using "make -k" for startup, it will do whatever it can and skip > anything that proper dependencies do not exit for. This is probably the closest you could come. > The only other option is to try and do some sort of sanity check when > running "makerc" to determine if the things are all in the right places. > (For example, using "make -n start"). Right. Allow it to be installed, but don't allow it to be made active until the dependencies are met. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.