Re: pkgsrc RC scripts

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Oct 3, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am consider to make the RC script support in pkgsrc a bit more  
> useful
> out of the box with the following changes:
>
> (1) Install pkgsrc RC scripts by default into /etc/rc.pkg.d, not
> /etc/rc.d and adjust the default value for rc_directories accordingly.
> This keeps the logical separation between base and pkgsrc RC scripts
> and still allows /usr (or /usr/pkg) to be on a separate filesystem.
>
> (2) Provide a default value of NO for the control variables. This
> ensures that no stupid "Missing variable $foo" clutters up the boot
> messages.
Both parts strike me as excellent ideas.  However -- where will you  
put the default "NO" information?  What about /etc/defaults/rc.pkg.conf?

Thinking further -- perhaps we should have /etc/pkg, and under it  
rc.d, rc.conf, mk.conf, defaults/rc.conf, etc.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb