Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:33:39 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: support for "first boot" rc.d scripts Message-ID: <89D8FB48-81BA-47CD-BAB9-BB2D448DE9A2@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org> References: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org>
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Wonderful! This capability is long overdue. On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > As examples of what such scripts could do: More examples: I've been experimenting with putting "gpart resize" and "growfs" into rc.d scripts to construct images that can be dd'ed onto some medium and then automatically grow to fill the medium. When cross-installing ports, there are certain operations (e.g., updating 'info' database) that can really only be done after the system next boots. > I'd like to get this into HEAD in the near future in the hope that I can > convince re@ that this is a simple enough (and safe enough) change to merge > before 10.0-RELEASE. Please. Tim
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