RFC: support for "first boot" rc.d scripts
Allan Jude
freebsd at allanjude.com
Tue Oct 15 19:35:41 UTC 2013
On 2013-10-15 15:33, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Wonderful! This capability is long overdue.
>
> On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> As examples of what such scripts could do:
> More examples:
>
> I've been experimenting with putting "gpart resize" and "growfs"
> into rc.d scripts to construct images that can be dd'ed onto some medium
> and then automatically grow to fill the medium.
I didn't think of that, that is a 'killer app' for rpi and other such
devices, or any kind of 'embedded' image really
> When cross-installing ports, there are certain operations
> (e.g., updating 'info' database) that can really only be
> done after the system next boots.
>
>> I'd like to get this into HEAD in the near future in the hope that I can
>> convince re@ that this is a simple enough (and safe enough) change to merge
>> before 10.0-RELEASE.
> Please.
>
> Tim
>
>
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