HEADS UP: MFC of local_startup changes to rc.d complete

[Florent Thoumie]

On Friday 23 December 2005 16:12, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> El Viernes, 23 de Diciembre de 2005 15:38, Florent Thoumie escribió:
> > On Friday 23 December 2005 15:19, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> > > I'm not sure this is the way to go, but ...
> > >
> > > Can someone put a document on what is the desired model?  I think
> > > we have too much little pieces of disperse notes about this.
> > >
> > > Also, some working notes about ports and RELENG_4/RELENG_5 src
> > > issues will be of interest.
> > >
> > > Hope this can be tweak in time for 6.1 (Jan).
> >
> > 	Convert your old script to rcNG scripts and use USE_RC_SUBR=
> > script.sh. Ensure that the rcorder preamble contains meaningful
> > keywords (PROVIDES, REQUIRES, BEFORE, ...) for all your rcNG scripts.
> > bsd.port.mk should do the rest.
>
> Some time working with binary oriented software systems have teach me
> that simple changes may become harder when size and numbers grow up. I
> think this may be even harder with a non-binary oriented system like
> ports.
>
> But this doesn't solve the real problem.  We've lost a reference model
> about rc and the interaction with the base system and ports.
>
> - some kinda of style for ports/system rc scripts

	?

> - some docs about keywords and stage support

	It's quite simple enough but yar wrote an article about it :

	http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/rcng/article.html

	I thought it already made it to the doc tree.

> - some kinda of timeline model

	There's one.
	Commit, MFC, fix broken ports.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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