Re: pkg/30652

[seebs%plethora.net@localhost (Peter Seebach)]

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From: seebs%plethora.net@localhost (Peter Seebach)
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/30652 
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 22:10:21 -0500

 In message 
<Pine.NEB.4.62.0605082001040.23392%pilchuck.reedmedia.net@localhost>, "Jeremy 
 C. Reed" writes:
 >On Mon, 8 May 2006, Peter Seebach wrote:
 >
 >> I don't recall.  I think it was just not installed.
 >
 >   If a package contains a rc.d script, it won't be copied into the 
 >   startup directory by default, but you can enable it, by adding the 
 >   option PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=YES in /etc/mk.conf. (Also PKG_CONFIG needs to 
 >   be set to the default YES.) This will copy the scripts to the 
 >   ${RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR} (which defaults to /etc/rc.d) when a package is 
 >   installed, and it will automatically remove the scripts when the 
 >   package is deinstalled.
 >
 >   Setting PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=YES in the environment can also be used when
 >   installing binary packages using pkg_add(1) to copy the rc.d scripts
 >   into place.
 
 When I did this, I think it may have been on an older system where the setup
 wasn't there by default; I no longer remember!
 
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