Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:51:18 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conflicting rc.d script and port dist directory Message-ID: <20051217215118.GG29053@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0512171317y2999bdb8q1be0a6145e719e2a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051217201004.GA845@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1134850440.64549.0.camel@localhost> <20051217203912.GD29053@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <790a9fff0512171305j45b46593j683be6227366d71c@mail.gmail.com> <20051217210921.GF29053@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <790a9fff0512171317y2999bdb8q1be0a6145e719e2a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:17:41PM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > > I don't see this as a hack. Any rc.d script placed in ${WORK}
> > > directory should have the .sh extention to avoid conflicts with
> > > similar named directories. When the port installs the rc.d script, it
> > > should check OSVERSION to determine if the script should be
> > > installed/not-installed with the .sh suffix.
> >
> > I guess that makes sense. It would be nice if we made up our minds what
> > the source extension and variable values should be.
> >
> The FreeBSD project has made up their minds that from 7.0 forward,
> rc.d scripts will be installed without the .sh suffix. They are also
> working on getting this working for 6.1+, as long as it doesn't break
> anything. Also we still need to support rc.d scripts for 4.x, 5.x and
> 6.0, so the .sh suffix needs to be appended for those systems.
Sorry, I meant within the ports collection. The files in ${FILESDIR}
should all end in one of .in or .sh.in and the USE_RC_SUBR entries
should all have or not have the .sh extension. Allowing variation is
just gratuitously confusing. Off hand I'd say .sh.in and no .sh in the
variable.
-- Brooks
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