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Date:      Mon, 02 Feb 2004 03:35:29 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USE_RC_SUBR
Message-ID:  <1075710928.89887.47.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpsmhuc7ot.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 01:32, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes:
> > There was a problem with testing for /etc/rc.subr existence with packag=
e
> > builds on bento.  However, this is being addressed in the current 4-exp
> > build.
>=20
> Thanks.
>=20
> Another issue with rc.subr is POLA.  Previously, anything listed in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d would start at boot time (or when you ran the
> script manually).  Now, though, ports using rc.subr don't start unless
> you explicitly enable them in /etc/rc.conf.  The startup script will
> simply do nothing, with no warning to the user.  I got bitten by this
> last night when I updated SpamAssassin on my mail server, and found
> out only this morning that it had switched to using rc.subr.
>=20
> I'm not going to start an argument about the desirability of this; the
> point is that people need to be made aware of it.

I agree, and I was almost bit in the same manner.  This would best be
done by the porter via pkg-message so that it works the same for both
ports and packages.

Joe

>=20
> DES
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