On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Alan Barrett wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > > we don't have to edit the file -- we can just re-install the whole file
> > > > with each package that has an rc.d script.

> If I reinstall an old binary package, then it would overwrite my
> existing copy of the "defaults" file, thus destroying the defaults for
> newer packages.

Oh. Now I understand what you mean.

> I want my private packages to use the same framework as NetBSD packages.
> If all NetBSD packages are supposed to add their variables to a single
> monolithic "defaults" file, but my private packages are not allowed to
> do that, then my private packages are not using the same infrastructure.

Got it.

Ok, David Brownlee suggested (in another forum), that we add a
pre-amble to package rc.d scripts for "sushi". So how about if we do
this:

1) Every rc.d script (package, base, local) gets a pre-amble that
   includes the comment, and the type of variable (yes/no, flags,
   arbitrary string).

2) We create a utility, to live in "/usr/sbin", that generates
   "/etc/defaults/rc.conf" and "/etc/defaults/sushi-rcconf" from
   the information embedded in the scripts in "/etc/rc.d", and run
   it from "pkg_add", or base system "make install" (it'll have to
   be a host tool) or pkgsrc "make install" (when necessary)?

?

Frederick