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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:24:51 -0500
From:      Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
To:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org>
Cc:        eik@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-BETA and related ports issues
Message-ID:  <3FC8BA43.1080902@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031129142508.GA46034@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org>
References:  <200311281553.hASFrURT003309@siralan.org> <86fzg8scn5.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk> <20031129142508.GA46034@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org>

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Andreas Klemm wrote:

>>        The following rc.d scripts have been removed and should be
>>        deleted from your installation: atm2.sh atm3.sh devdb
>>        localdaemons network1 network2 network3. Depending on when
>>        you last updated world and used mergemaster(8) you may or
>>        may not have problems during the rc boot sequence. The simplest
>>        solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then 'mergemaster -i'.
>>        The atm2.sh atm3.sh and devdb scripts were removed some time
>>        ago, so depending on when you installed -CURRENT these scripts
>>        may or may not exist on your system.
> 
> I can't recommend doing it this way, since some ports I know
> are writing startup scripts to /etc/rc.d :-/
> 
> Cc'd to port maintainer to sanitize this
> 
> All openldapXX-server ports do this for example
> 
> root@titan[ttyp2]{219} /var/db/pkg grep /etc/rc.d */+CONTEN*
> [...]
> openldap-server-2.1.23/+CONTENTS:@unexec /etc/rc.d/slapd stop 2>&1 >/dev/null || true
> openldap-server-2.1.23/+CONTENTS:@unexec /etc/rc.d/slurpd stop 2>&1 >/dev/null || true
> openldap-server-2.1.23/+CONTENTS:@cwd /etc/rc.d

It's too bad that portlint doesn't catch this.  I wonder how hard it 
would be to add such detection.  It already does some pretty amazing 
stuff already.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com




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