Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:43:05 -0600 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzelsw@westbend.net> To: "Ade Lovett" <ade@freebsd.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support Message-ID: <04d401c3f710$4443b050$cebe7726@westbend.net> References: <20040217193127.5655.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org><87vfm5777l.fsf@gray.impulse.net><20040217212137.GD719@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org><20040217222807.GA771@arthur.nitro.dk> <1077080652.51446.4.camel@gorf.lovett.com>
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From: "Ade Lovett" <ade@freebsd.org> > Since we already have (now) /etc/rc.d, /usr/local/etc/rc.d, and > /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d launching scripts left, right, and center, it does > not seem unreasonable to have equivalent etc/rc.conf and etc/conf.d > mechansisms, so that changes can be kept in isolation from each other. > Before I submitted the port for rc_subr and the patch to bsd.port.mk for USE_RC_SUBR, I had a created a patch to rc.subr that added a new function (load_local_rc_config). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1539716+1545012+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20021006.freebsd-current http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=44800 It would have allowed ports to place their settings into PREFIX/etc/rc.conf.d/${name}. The patch was sent for review to the -CURRENT mailing list, as a PR (conf/44800) and to gordon who was bringing rcNG into FreeBSD. Unfortunately, I can't find any responses to the patch. About a year later, I closed the PR and submitted the rc_subr port without the change to rc.subr. If you feel that we need this functionality, ask someone to re-open PR conf/44800 and have the rcNG maintainer look at it. Scot
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