Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:46:21 +0100 From: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-current@webteckies.org> To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA and related ports issues Message-ID: <200311301746.27134.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> In-Reply-To: <3FCA12B3.7070604@mindspring.com> References: <200311281553.hASFrURT003309@siralan.org> <20031130084800.GA64364@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <3FCA12B3.7070604@mindspring.com>
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On Sunday 30 November 2003 16:54, Richard Coleman wrote:
> But it doesn't help if you need a port to start earlier than something
> in the base. This could happen if you've replaced sendmail with
> postfix, and use maps from a remote database (openldap, postgresql,
> etc). I'm sure there are other examples as well (nss_ldap, etc).
Then you can just as easily nuke the entire mailer.conf principle and symli=
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bin/postfix to etc/rc.d/050.postfix.sh.
Point being: these are customized setups that require skill to get even=20
remotely working, so one can assume that the person installing the port can=
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read instructions given in pkg-message.
I don't think any ports/package system is capable of correctly setting all=
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*runtime* dependencies especially when it allows it's users to change=20
configurations after installation without recording the changes back into t=
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ports/pkg system.
However - to allow this flexibility, the ports system should try to respect=
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the installation prefix.
Nothing prevents a port from entering "If you need ${PORTNAME} to start bef=
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foo, symlink ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/${PORTNAME}.sh to /etc/rc.d/ and make sure=
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it's lexically sorted before foo" into pkg-message.
Then the statement in UPDATING can read:
find /etc/rc.d \! -type l -print | xargs rm -vf
and it will always apply.
Perhaps the patch below (or something similar) should be added as well to m=
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people aware of the local_startup system.
My 2c.
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Melvyn
=2D-- bsd.port.mk.orig Sun Nov 30 17:22:22 2003
+++ bsd.port.mk Sun Nov 30 17:29:21 2003
@@ -766,6 +766,9 @@
# apply here. It is recommended that you use
# %%PREFIX%% for ${PREFIX}, %%LOCALBASE%% for
# ${LOCALBASE} and %%X11BASE%% for ${X11BASE}.
+# INSTALLS_RCSCRIPT - If set, bsd.port.mk will check if ${LOCALBASE} is eq=
ual
+# to ${PREFIX} or else suggest that ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d should
+# be added to local_startup in /etc/rc.conf
# DOCSDIR - Name of the directory to install the packages docs in
# (default: ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PORTNAME}).
# EXAMPLESDIR - Name of the directory to install the packages examples in
@@ -3127,6 +3130,10 @@
@${MKHTMLINDEX} ${PREFIX}/lib/X11/doc/html
.endif
.endif
+.endif
+.if defined(INSTALLS_RCSCRIPT) && ${LOCALBASE} !=3D ${PREFIX}
+ @${ECHO_MSG} "You should verify if ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d is in local_startup"
+ @${ECHO_MSG} "in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf"
.endif
.endif
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