On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, David Laight wrote:

: > And if db X is from pkgsrc, or from a third-party vendor?  Is anything
: > not from the base system considered "local" in that the admin is
: > expected to have to hack on it for such things?
:
: Seems like an 'AFTER' tag would do - one that doesn't require
: the referenced script to be present.

Why would you not require it to be present, if you have the full knowledge
that you're gluing a database into rc.d?

: Then you could add a dummy script that just contained:
:
: # AFTER: xxx
: # BEFORE: yyy

BEFORE requires its entries to be present.  In fact, the whole rcorder/rc.d
system expects no dangling dependencies; a warning is issued if there are
any.

Given that you'd expect both entries in the above to be present (in the case
of "run db X before inetd", you can still have a dummy glue script, and
simply replace AFTER with REQUIRE.  Done.

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