On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm not opposed to that idea (in fact I seriously considered it) but
the reason I didn't do it is that I don't have a good sense of why we
need it. Once again as Mike pointed out, the reason that it was there,
and the reason it was .sh was specifically to do what we're now trying
to avoid, since whatever benefits there may have been don't outweigh
the risks.
So you remove functionality that others depend on simply because you
don't understand it and / or don't need it yourself?
Um, no. That's not at all what I said, and I don't appreciate you
mischaracterizing what I did say. Also, please keep in mind that I'm not
suggesting we remove it until RELENG_8 branches, so we have plenty of time
to find the right answer here.
You didn't even bother to ask on freebsd-rc.
It was discussed there at the time that I added support for local scripts
in the overall boot order. The period of time between now and then is
longer than I would have liked, but life happens.
I was unaware of the use of this script suggested in gmirror(8) until
Dmitry pointed it out to me, and that usage should really be converted
to a proper rc.d script.
It's not the kind of thing that lends itself well to being formalized in
that manner.
I disagree with you on that, and I plan to submit a script that does what
I have in mind for the people familiar with gmirror to test.
This is precisely why we have rc.early and rc.local: so people who have
special (perhaps one-off) needs can do special (perhaps one-off) things
without jumping through too many hoops.
No one is suggesting removing rc.local, and I would vigorously oppose
doing so.
As I said in my last message, if users respond to the deprecation warning
with a request not to remove it, we can convert it to being a regular rc.d
script. That way it's only a little dangerous instead of being super
dangerous and potentially fatal.
I can't help but think that you're having a knee-jerk reaction to
something that at the end of the day is not that big of a deal. I would
suggest that perhaps taking a step back and gaining some perspective might
be a useful exercise at this point.
Doug
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