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Re: /etc/rc.d/ as a bunch of symlinks



  Hello!

matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> 
> wrote:
>> matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>>
>>> This morning I was trying to think about the use-case of replacing an
>>> in-tree component with a pkgsrc version.
>>>
>>> In my case I use pkgsrc postfix instead of base postfix.

...

>> Besides, you can replace postfix less intrusively by redefining
>> few variables in rc.conf (e.g. "postfix_command", "spooletcdir",
>> and "postconf").
>
> Does that also directly deal with the case of executing /etc/rc.d/postfix ?

The question is unclear to me. You redefine what binaries are called
by /etc/rc.d/postfix (the one coming base) so that you run /etc/rc.d/postfix
and it executes commands from /usr/pkg, /usr/local, or whatever you choose.


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