On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:21:28 -0800 (PST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> Several packages (such as samba20, net/arla, ucd-snmp, netatalk and many
> more) assume /etc/rc.d/ is the location for rc.d scripts.
> 
> For example, I use:
>  PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS= YES
>  RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR= /usr/share/examples/rc.d
> 
> So my configs are installed to /etc/rc.d/ (the default RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR).
> 
> And my rc.d scripts are not installed where the PLIST indicates.
> 
> PLIST_SUBST can easily be used to make sure that the
> RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR is used.
> 
> For example, I have in my security/openssh/PLIST:
> ${RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR}/sshd
> 
> And the security/openssh/Makefile has:
> PLIST_SUBST+= RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR=${RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR}
> 
> Maybe that PLIST_SUBST should be the default for all?
> 
> Then all the PLISTs can be easily fixed.
> 
> Any comments?

I could simply set RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR to /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d
and then fix the packages.  Anyway, the examples location is not tunable,
nor the documentation, nor "anything". We have PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS to place the
rc.d scripts wherever we want, after they are installed.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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