RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports (without touching localpkg)

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Tue Aug 17 15:33:36 PDT 2004


> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:24:27 -0500
> From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>
> 
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:58:14 -0700, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> > > It is best to leave the moving of these scripts up to the individual
> > > administrator.
> > 
> > Only if mergemaster is fixed!
> > 
> This could be fixed by adding:
> 
>    # KEYWORD: FreeBSD PORT
> 
> to each startup script.  Then making mergemaster ignore any script
> that has PORT in the KEYWORD line.

Yes, this would work, although I would prefer:
     # KEYWORD: FreeBSD USER
since some systems might want to add scripts to rc.local that are not
from ports.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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