Switch to using rc.d for local packages is premature for
RELENG_6
Maxim Sobolev
sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 22 04:28:48 UTC 2006
I have just realized that maybe the best approach to address this
problem would be not reverting the change in question, but making
find_local_scripts_new() more strict, so that only those local rc.d
scripts that have been explicitly marked by maintainer as fully
rc.d-safe are handled in a new way. Checking for '^# PROVIDE:' doesn't
really work reliably.
-Maxim
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As part of testing how well some of our products work with latest
> RELENG_6, I have make a new build and found that lot of important
> services (for example PostgreSQL, Apache) doesn't start up (despite
> having respective xxx_enable entries in /etc/rc.conf) when installed
> from the freshly updated ports tree onto a clean, freshly updated
> RELENG_6 system. This is very bad, considering how close to release are
> we and how much FreeBSD users rely on those services to work OOB.
>
> I would expect them to be really pissed off when lot of important
> services just don't work after upgrading their server from 6.0 to 6.1 or
> after installing it from install cd. This is apparently caused by the
> fact that lot of rc.d scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are newstyle one
> now (sufficiently newstyle to pass find_local_scripts_new check), but
> few of them were actually tested to work correctly in fully rc.d
> environment.
>
> Therefore, I think that the RELENG_6 should be reverted to using old
> stuff and it should be left for 7.x tree.
>
> Regards,
>
> Maxim
>
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