Re: Platform independant startup environment?

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Jun 24,  5:54pm, Jesse Peterson wrote:
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} I've noticed that a number of packages come with NetBSD rc.d startup scripts. 
I also notice that a lot of the pkgsrc platforms don't have the NetBSD rc.d 
system. ;)  Would it make sense to create (or port) a similar rc.d system and 
make it platform agnostic that the hosting platform could just execute the 
"pkgsrc startup mechanism" and all of the rc.d scripts that a lot of packages 
come with could "just work" with most platforms?

     See pkgtools/rc.subr and pkgtools/rcorder.

} Alternatively a startup meta-definition syntax from which pkgsrc could 
generate platform-specific startup data/files/mechanisms (such as launchd 
plists for Mac OS X/Darwin, NetBSD rc.d scripts, Linux init.d, initng, etc.)?

     This would be interesting...

}-- End of excerpt from Jesse Peterson