From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 15 17: 8:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975C137B446 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C5FAD81480; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:38:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:38:01 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Terry Lambert , Mike Makonnen , Danny Braniss , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: rc.d is in the tree Message-ID: <20020616000801.GG65995@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3D0A6E7B.F243329A@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 15 June 2002 at 11:30:08 -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Mike Makonnen wrote: >>> Danny Braniss wrote: >>>> in amd, >>>> # REQUIRE: rpcbind mountall ypbind nfsclient >>>> ****** >>>> since i don't use yp, how can i override this? >>>> >>>> or in other words, can REQUIRE be configurable too? >>> >>> The REQUIRE line doesn't mean it will be started. It just means that >>> ypbind comes before amd in the boot process. >> >> Ick. >> >> What should be used instead of REQUIRE to mean that it will be >> started? >> >> I.e. if "REQUIRE" describes soft dependency ordering, what >> describes hard dependency ordering? > > I don't like this design decision either. I have a couple of ideas on how > to get rid of rcorder completely and bring the dependency checking into > the script itself (complete with the notion of hard and soft > dependencies). Are you talking with lukem about this? It would be nice to stay as compatible as possible. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message