Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:28:54 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Removal of the old rc system from -current Message-ID: <009001c30dbc$684a2c10$13fd2fd8@Admin02> References: <20030426154030.M13476@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
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From: "Doug Barton" <DougB@freebsd.org>
> 2. Backport /etc/rc.subr to RELENG_4 prior to 4.9-Release. The purpose
> here is to allow ports authors to make use of the rcNG system for their
> startup scripts, and to possibly allow us to backport major features that
> just work better in the NG framework.
>
I started porting my ports rc scripts to work on both rcNG and rcOG systems.
In this process I found the ideal solution for the ports rc.d script:
1. define default port variables in the script
2. check for /etc/rc.subr
a. if rc.subr exists, use rcNG style
b. if rc.subr not exists
1. source /etc/defaults/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf)
2. use rcOG style
This way we can keep compatibility with previous releases as well in the
ports tree. (see ports/security/cyrus-sasl/files/*.sh & PR 51505). Then
after a period of time we could drop the rcOG support from the ports tree.
Another option would be to have bsd.port.mk detect that /etc/rc.subr doesn't
exist, and then install a rc.subr on these older systems.
Scot
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