Re: PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=YES be default?

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Malcolm Herbert <mjch%mjch.net@localhost> writes:

> I personally think we should probably drop pkgsrc startup scripts into
> /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d as was the practice some time ago and then craft
> something reasonable for the OS that can kick them off in a similar
> manner that which is currently done on NetBSD
>
> so, for example, one /etc/{rc,init}.d/pkgsrc script that will use
> /usr/pkg/etc/rc.conf for config and rcorder[1] over /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/*

This is very far from being that easy.

> This follows the minimal footprint that we want to maintain on
> non-NetBSD OSes and with proper variable control would also be
> gracefully configurable for those environments that want things in
> /etc/rc.d/* and config from /etc/rc.conf
>
> The only thing that this won't solve is interleaving services and their
> dependents, but if that is truly necessary for foreign OSes then I'd
> suggest pkgsrc might not be the appropriate choice ...

Proper ordering of services is important.


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