Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:35:37 -0400 From: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: support for "first boot" rc.d scripts Message-ID: <525D9909.4070206@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: <89D8FB48-81BA-47CD-BAB9-BB2D448DE9A2@freebsd.org> References: <525B258F.3030403@freebsd.org> <89D8FB48-81BA-47CD-BAB9-BB2D448DE9A2@freebsd.org>
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On 2013-10-15 15:33, Tim Kientzle wrote: > 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. I didn't think of that, that is a 'killer app' for rpi and other such devices, or any kind of 'embedded' image really > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Allan Jude
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