[PATCH] Allow use of program path overrides

[Doug Barton]

On 9/6/2012 3:10 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:03:30PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 9/6/2012 12:57 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Many rc(8) scripts have corresponding 'foo_program="/path/to/foo"' 
>>> entries in etc/defaults/rc.conf .
>>
>> These are usually only added for things that might get overridden by
>> something from ports.
>>
> 
> I can think of valid reasons one might want to do this otherwise.

Me too, but I would prefer not to clutter defaults/rc.conf without good
reason. The fact that no variable is in there doesn't mean that users
can't still do it if they need to.

>>> However, some are missing the functionality to override $command 
>>> correctly.
>>
>> rc.subr should already do that. Have you tested it?
>>
> 
> Yes.  See the previous thread on -rc@ .

David never mentioned that he actually tested it, and just confirmed
that he didn't. Did you actually test it?

Doug

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