On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Al B. Snell wrote:

# Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:24:46 +0000 (GMT)
# From: Al B. Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
# To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
# Cc: Dominik Rothert <dr@astorit.com>, tech-pkg@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: What about startup scripts??
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# On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
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# > Problem: the variables need to be set before you run "rcorder", before
# > you've done almost anything -- "/" is still mounted read only. The
# > best separation we can accomplish here is to have /etc/rc.pkg.conf.
# 
# Why? rcorder just looks at the comments in the scripts - it doesn't
# actually execute them, and /usr/pkg/etc/rc.conf is source from in the
# scripts...

Um, why not just put your own commented section in /etc/rc.conf and set
stuff there?  rc.conf is not going to get clobbered during an upgrade
(that's what /etc/default/rc.conf is for).

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# > Frederick
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