Re: postinstall wiped out my /etc/rc changes

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Daniel Horecki wrote:
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jared D. McNeill 
> <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> > Daniel Horecki wrote:
> >  > And what with rc.d/ files? E.g. I have xdm from pkgsrc, and every time
> >  > I had to use postinstall,
> >  > I have to to bring back that files.
> >
> >  I suppose you could install rc.d scripts to /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d and set
> > rc_rcorder_flags in rc.conf, but I'm not sure how rcorder will handle a
> > duplicate script (which will take precedence).
>
> It will execute first script, which is provided later, e.g.:
>
> sh@tatooine:/etc/ > rcorder /etc/rc.d/*
> /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xdm |grep xdm
> /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xdm
> /etc/rc.d/xdm
> sh@tatooine:/etc/ > rcorder /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xdm
> /etc/rc.d/*|grep xdm
> /etc/rc.d/xdm
> /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/xdm
> sh@tatooine:/etc/ >
>
> Unfortunately, rc_rcorder_flags comes first, so xdm will be used from /etc/rc.d.

Can you override the /etc/rc.d/xdm variables in /etc/rc.conf.d/xdm, and 
ignore the pkgsrc rc.d script? Something like:

  $ cat /etc/rc.conf.d/xdm
  command="/usr/pkg/bin/xdm"
  required_files="/usr/pkg/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config"

Cheers,
Jared