Re: pkgsrc RC scripts

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

2009/10/6 Joachim König <him%online.de@localhost>:
>
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:26:13PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:48:11PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > > I am consider to make the RC script support in pkgsrc a bit more
>> > > useful
>> > > out of the box with the following changes:
>> > >
>> > > (1) Install pkgsrc RC scripts by default into /etc/rc.pkg.d, not
>> > > /etc/rc.d and adjust the default value for rc_directories accordingly.
>> > > This keeps the logical separation between base and pkgsrc RC scripts
>> > > and still allows /usr (or /usr/pkg) to be on a separate filesystem.
>> >
>> > I don't like that - this messes up installing on shared /usr/pkg
>> > systems.
>>
>> It isn't any worse than the current status.
>
> Maybe i missed some arguments, but
>
> What's the advantage of having the rc.d scripts of pkgsrc packages inside
> the root filesystem
> (either in /etc/rc.d or /etc/rc.pkg.d or ...) but not /usr/pkg (or $PREFIX)
> itself?
>
> - o.k., rcorder only needs to run once, e.g. we do not have to weave in the
> rc scripts
>  of pkgsrc packages at some stage of the boot process.
>
> But on the other hand, the rc.d scripts from pkgsrc packages generally need
> executables
> from /usr/pkg (or $PREFIX, you know ...) so these scripts need some
> provisions for
> /usr/pkg (...) to be mounted when they're to be started (of course there are
> packages
> that want to do something early in the boot process without the requirement
> for /usr/pkg
> to be mounted already).
>
> But then it would still be early enough to know the rc scripts at the point
> in time when
> /usr/pkg is mounted. So a script, specifying at which point in time a
> package tree
> should be mounted should be enough. This would then be responsible to mix in
> the
> rc scripts from that package tree.
>


I restarted (# /etc/rc.d/xyz restart) daemons way more often than I
reboot.  Having all of that available in one place is the only way to
go.