Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:42:49 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: gryphon@healer.com, hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509281842.OAA24987@healer.com>
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> +> Actually, it will still generate correctly, but will fail at boot
> +> time since A is not runable.
> +>
> +> Which is what I would consider the correct behavior.
> 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?
How much is going to run?
"Fail at boot time" means run a sysadmin shell at that point
(just like it does now if something important fails).
By using "make -k" for startup, it will do whatever it can and skip
anything that proper dependencies do not exit for.
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").
-coranth
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