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Date:      Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:43:36 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Startup after named
Message-ID:  <20080603224336.GJ89632@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <4843696C.9070608@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20080601105933.GA23625@k7.mavetju> <4843696C.9070608@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:30:52PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> >A certain port (net/freenet6) needs to be started up after the
> >system is capable of doing DNS requests. That sounds like "REQUIRE:
> >named".
> >
> >But what if the system doesn't have named enabled?
> >What kind of require can I use for either named *or* networking?
> 
> REQUIRE is somewhat poorly named, as it implies that the feature must 
> be enabled to satisfy the requirement, which is not true. It would 
> more properly be called AFTER since it only applies to how rcorder 
> arranges the scripts to be run (and therefore tested to see if they 
> are enabled or not).

I've submitted a patch to add this information to rcorder.8:
bin/124251: [patch] add BUGS section to rcorder.8 with REQUIRE explanation

> Without knowing the details of what you're working on, you can 
> probably just REQUIRE named.

Yes, that one worked fine.

Edwin
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