cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf rc.conf

Mike Makonnen mtm at FreeBSD.Org
Tue May 29 20:35:21 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Mike Makonnen <mtm at FreeBSD.Org> writes:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:22:14AM +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
> > >   Log:
> > >   Now that a separate /usr/X11R6 directory is no longer in fashion,
> > >   stop looking there for things like rc.d and periodic. This avoids
> > >   duplicating effort when /usr/X11R6 is a symlink to /usr/local,
> > >   which it is by default now.
> > I dunno, it seems a bit much to force someone (even if it *is* -CURRENT)
> > to either upgrade to xorg 7.2 or maintain a local patch to revert this
> > commit. Not all of us have the bandwidth to upgrade immediately :-(
> 
> if [ -d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/ -a \
>     ! /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ -ef /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/ ] ; then
>         local_startup="$local_startup /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d"
> fi
> 

This looks like a good solution. I don't think it is unreasonable for
a user to expect to upgrade a pre-xorg7.2 6-STABLE system to 7-STABLE
and have everythinkg work as before (i.e- /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d scripts
get executed at startup)..

Cheers.
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