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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:58:56 +0200
From:      Jan Srzednicki <w@expro.pl>
To:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports (without touching localpkg)
Message-ID:  <20040817155856.GA28897@miranda.expro.pl>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0408170809f006b57@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20040816155653.GA2405@rogue.acs-et.com> <20040817080812.GF37212@miranda.expro.pl> <790a9fff0408170809f006b57@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:09:25AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:08:12 +0200, Jan Srzednicki <w@expro.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > That's why my suggestion would be: /etc/rc.d/local/ (or
> > /etc/rc.d/ports/, or whatever you want to call it). In this way you can
> > easily separate both directories, and as new-style ports rc-scripts have
> > to be placed in the new location, there is absolutely no confusion about
> > them. Old scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d would be run with localpkg as
> > they have been before.
> > 
> Except this breaks for people who are NFS mounting /usr/local from
> another machine, as the startup scripts are on the machine where the
> port was originally installed, instead on in local/etc/rc.d.  Which is
> one of the purposes of putting them into local/etc/rc.d in the first
> place.

That can easily be fixed by a global make option (in /etc/make.conf)
that would not install anything in /etc/rc.d/local/ and use old-style
/usr/local/etc/rc.d, even if the system supports /etc/rc.d/local/. So it
brings us to two make options - INSTALL_RCD and IGNORE_INSTALL_RCD (just
a naming suggestion). /etc/rc.d/localpkg won't go away, so this seems to
me to be a good solution.

-- 
Jan 'wrzask' Srzednicki
w@expro.pl



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