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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:39:53 -0600
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Rong-En Fan <rafan@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/LPRng Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/LPRng/files lprng.in pkg-message.in
Message-ID:  <20080123193953.GA10711@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:31:51AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:51:08AM +0800, Rong-En Fan wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:45:02PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> The script looks good, thanks for doing this! The only thing I would=
=20
>>>> point out is that the default _enable=3Dno is not needed, since rc.sub=
r=20
>>>> needs to see one of the values for "yes" in order to do anything. No=
=20
>>>> harm leaving it in, I just wanted to point out that it's not strictly=
=20
>>>> necessary.
>>> Thanks. I see most of our /etc/rc.d/* scripts does not have this.
>>> But most ports' have as our Porter's Handbook have such example.
>> I believe this is actually required for rc scripts supplied by
>> ports. Scripts included in the base wont need it, since their default
>> settings are already present in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
>> I just tried removing the default setting for '$bitlbee_enable' in the
>> rc script for irc/bitlbee, I did recently. It then results in the
>> following error when '$bitlbee_enable' is undefined:
>> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bitlbee rcvar
>> # bitlbee
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bitlbee: WARNING: $bitlbee_enable is not set properl=
y=20
>> - see rc.conf(5).
>> bitlbee_enable=3DNO
>=20
> Hrrm, that's annoying. :) Ignore what I said then, if it's doing that (an=
d=20
> I don't think it _should_, but that's another issue) then you need the=20
> default. Sorry for the noise.

It's done that from day one with rc.d since foo_enable variables are checked
with checkyesno().  If we wanted to not have to set them, adding a default
argument to checkyesno is certainly easy enough to do following the pattern=
 in
network.subr's get_if_var(), but I'm not sure it would be of much value.

-- Brooks

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