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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2007 23:40:12 +0300
From:      Mike Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.Org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20070529204012.GA16582@rogue.navcom.lan>
In-Reply-To: <864plw80dv.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200705290622.l4T6MEbp094483@repoman.freebsd.org> <2007052907474 5.GA2078@rogue.navcom.lan> <864plw80dv.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Mike Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.Org> writes:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:22:14AM +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
> > >   Log:
> > >   Now that a separate /usr/X11R6 directory is no longer in fashion,
> > >   stop looking there for things like rc.d and periodic. This avoids
> > >   duplicating effort when /usr/X11R6 is a symlink to /usr/local,
> > >   which it is by default now.
> > I dunno, it seems a bit much to force someone (even if it *is* -CURRENT)
> > to either upgrade to xorg 7.2 or maintain a local patch to revert this
> > commit. Not all of us have the bandwidth to upgrade immediately :-(
> 
> if [ -d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/ -a \
>     ! /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ -ef /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/ ] ; then
>         local_startup="$local_startup /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d"
> fi
> 

This looks like a good solution. I don't think it is unreasonable for
a user to expect to upgrade a pre-xorg7.2 6-STABLE system to 7-STABLE
and have everythinkg work as before (i.e- /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d scripts
get executed at startup)..

Cheers.
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