Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-03-01 Thread Andrea Campi
> Let's take another example. The REQUIREMENT line in a script cannot be > made conditional. It requires a modification of rcorder(8) to do so. > So, if one of NetBSD's services has a requirement that we don't have, it > automatically means we need two separate scripts with different > REQUIREMENT

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-02-28 Thread Mike Makonnen
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 09:23, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:39:33AM -0800, Mike Makonnen wrote: > > I chose to go a slightly different route than Gordon, in that I have not > > tried to make the scripts compatible with NetBSD (His scripts include > > conditionals for NetBSD, min

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-02-28 Thread Mike Makonnen
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 09:02, Terry Lambert wrote: > Thanks for the hard work, Mike! > Thanks, nice to know someone appreciates it. Every one has their own ideas about how it _should_ be done, so I expected I'd get flamed for not pleasing everyone. OTOH it's been less than 24 hours since I posted

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-02-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:39:33AM -0800, Mike Makonnen wrote: > I chose to go a slightly different route than Gordon, in that I have not > tried to make the scripts compatible with NetBSD (His scripts include > conditionals for NetBSD, mine don't). These are my reasons. The point you are missing

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-02-28 Thread Terry Lambert
Thanks for the hard work, Mike! Mike Makonnen wrote: > - Converging startup scripts before the rest of the system is converted > will be a nightmare because there are too many differences. > Examples why: > - The -w switch is deprecated in FreeBSD, and NetBSD still > requir

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-02-28 Thread Mike Makonnen
I've been working from Gordon Tetlow's work on this, for the past few weeks. I have managed to get most everyting up to network_pass3 in /etc/rc. It's still very much in development, but it's quite usable and I use it to boot my system on a daily basis. I chose to go a slightly different route th

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:02:11AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Looking at the repository, I have not really seen anything done with > > building a NetBSD-style rc.d system that will provide FreeBSD > > functionality for a long time. > > Seve

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Looking at the repository, I have not really seen anything done with > building a NetBSD-style rc.d system that will provide FreeBSD > functionality for a long time. Several of us have started on this, and either run out of time, or interest (

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Kevin Way wrote: > * Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-02-02 03:58]: > > > At this point, I'm very willing to help anybody who is doing the > > > main development, with either coding or testing, but I have no > > > interest being a lead developer on the project. > > > >

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
> > I'm about to dive into doing some work for an rc system for the ports > > (${PREFIX}/etc/defaults && ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.conf) and have an interest > > in learning about the way they've done things. Does their paradigm > > completely obsolete the rc.conf concept? Were there any docs/project > >

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Kevin Way
* Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-02-02 03:58]: > > At this point, I'm very willing to help anybody who is doing the > > main development, with either coding or testing, but I have no > > interest being a lead developer on the project. > > Have you been in contact with Gordon Tetlow to see

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Kevin Way
* David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-02-02 04:39]: > I may have dropped the ball on this. I was waiting for a tarball from > you, that you were happy with. You may have told me where to pick one up > that I failed to do. Thanks for offering yourself up as an excuse, but the failure to delive

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Kevin Way
* Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-02-02 04:05]: > I'm about to dive into doing some work for an rc system for the ports > (${PREFIX}/etc/defaults && ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.conf) and have an interest > in learning about the way they've done things. Does their paradigm > completely obsolete the r

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:48 PM -0800 2/26/02, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:00:52AM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: > >> I, for one, lost interest in doing the work when I realized I was >> receiving, quite literally, 5 times more complaints than combined >> patches, constructive criticism or positive f

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:17:49AM -0800, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > Should committers be updating those files when they update /etc/rc? If so, > I'll need to change the sendmail startup routines. No. That will pull them off the vendor branch before we are ready for that. To Unsubscribe: se

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:00:52AM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: > As one of the many people who've done some initial work on the port, > I can tell you that it seems to me that there's not a lot of interest > in this project, beyond criticizing the work of those who've made > attempts to do any work, o

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
> I spent some time in the fall learning the NetBSD system > (unfortunately I'm not running any NetBSD boxes at the moment or > this would probably be a _lot_ easier), but have not really done any > work. I thought some people were working on it, but not in the > tree. I did not want to duplicate

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:00:52AM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: > I, for one, lost interest in doing the work when I realized I was > receiving, quite literally, 5 times more complaints than combined > patches, constructive criticism or positive feedback. Well, for what it's worth I didn't say anythi

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Kevin Way wrote: > As one of the many people who've done some initial work on the port, I > can tell you that it seems to me that there's not a lot of interest in > this project, beyond criticizing the work of those who've made attempts > to do any work, or attempting to exp

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Gregory Neil Shapiro
Should committers be updating those files when they update /etc/rc? If so, I'll need to change the sendmail startup routines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:00:52 EST, Kevin Way wrote: > At this point, I'm very willing to help anybody who is doing the > main development, with either coding or testing, but I have no > interest being a lead developer on the project. Have you been in contact with Gordon Tetlow to see how he's f

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Kevin Way
As one of the many people who've done some initial work on the port, I can tell you that it seems to me that there's not a lot of interest in this project, beyond criticizing the work of those who've made attempts to do any work, or attempting to expand the scope of the project requirements beyon