ports registering services in /etc/services and services_mkdb

Olli Hauer ohauer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 7 14:43:12 UTC 2012


Hi,

during an update to 8.3 I notice mergemaster from 8.3 is
building a database from /etc/services with services_mkdb.

However the ports framework does not provide an automation
to rebuild this database, even I haven't seen any port which
triggers a rebuild.

So my questions:
- should ports take care for rebuilding the database
- should we implement something like USERS/GROUPS for services in bsd.port.mk
- what are the consumers of /var/db/services.db and what is the impact of not rebuilding this database.


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regards,
olli


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