On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Dustin Sias wrote:Please respond to the list when i post to the list, not to me, or i might just trash your message out of spite. I am not personal Fink help boy. Others take note, please.
Here is an example. this change would make it easy to change user, group, startup scripts, etc.. I like the /Library/StartupItems method. I would also like the package to create, update, delete user, group information. This is mostly to allow easy local modification of the package.
Though I did.
I thought apache2 included apr (thats why it conflicts with the apr package?) Since it does, why does all that apr-fix stuff have to be in a PostInstScript? Why not an InstallScript? You can add all the patches to your .patch file. Same with the others - you can put that code into your .patch file, and patch it into a new file. Modifying the files of other packages is an extremely bad thing to do and is error prone.
Apache2 does include apr, but it installs broken apr-conf, apu-conf scripts. To compile modules like php with apache2, they must be updated with the correct paths and library information. If not php module will fail on compile.
Even if I used an installscript, it would still be nice to have fink use an alternate here document symbol. I like just being able to edit a file. With a patch file it is more work and 2 files. I have had problem with patch and files that did not exist in the original source location.
I dont think automatically starting apache after the package is installed is a good idea. We leave that to the users.I don't, I just install the scripts and the startup option to -NO-. It is up to the user which method they choose. It is one less thing running by using apple startup method, and you get a nice user startup message for each service.
You should use aDaemonicFile script to create your startup items, if possible. Whats wrong with that method?
-Ben
-Dustin
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