DragonFlyBSD

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:49:14PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:

I've been on to the maintainer and he says to report it to DF people.

As far I personally tried apcupsd, the old version was unusuable for me.
Never got around to test the new version for USB UPS though. I still
have it around though.

Joerg

joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:49:14PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:

I've been on to the maintainer and he says to report it to DF people.

As far I personally tried apcupsd, the old version was unusuable for me.
Never got around to test the new version for USB UPS though. I still
have it around though.

Joerg

Oh, damn. Why was it unusable? Because you use a USB cable?

Looks like I still won't be switching to DF any time soon then, there's
a few packages, which I need, that appear to be semi-broken, and I am
not clever enough to fix them myself :-)

The maintainer said he was going to look in to updating the package
possibly some time soon, by the way.

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:

joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:49:14PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:

I've been on to the maintainer and he says to report it to DF people.

As far I personally tried apcupsd, the old version was unusuable for me.
Never got around to test the new version for USB UPS though. I still
have it around though.

Joerg

Oh, damn. Why was it unusable? Because you use a USB cable?

I have a USB-only UPS. So I have no other option, but a newer version.

Joerg

Mark Cullen wrote:
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The problem: the rc.d script doesn't seem to get installed.

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The following files should be created for apcupsd-3.8.6nb5:

/etc/rc.d/apcupsd (m=0755)

Well, God knows I'm no expert, but I'm wondering if the script
got installed in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/ instead?

When I first started using pkgsrc I tried to keep the FBSD ports
system installed at the same time. I got hopelessly lost in the
details of where the rc and config files should be installed.

I'm still a bit uncertain about these details, actually, even
though I managed to get everything working just by trial-and-
error.

I remember (dimly) that doing a pkgsrc/bootstrap asks you where
you want certain things installed, like the rc.d directory, just
as one example.

Are there gurus out there who can give us the real facts?

walt wrote:

Mark Cullen wrote:
[...][

The problem: the rc.d script doesn't seem to get installed.

---

=========================================================================== ===========================================================================
The following files should be created for apcupsd-3.8.6nb5:

/etc/rc.d/apcupsd (m=0755)

Well, God knows I'm no expert, but I'm wondering if the script
got installed in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/ instead?

It wasn't in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/, but I assume you meant to say
/etc/rc.d/ there? :-) Well spotted, I never checked there for it! I'll
have a look at that one later.

When I first started using pkgsrc I tried to keep the FBSD ports
system installed at the same time. I got hopelessly lost in the
details of where the rc and config files should be installed.

I'm still a bit uncertain about these details, actually, even
though I managed to get everything working just by trial-and-
error.

It is a little different, but I do like how everything goes under /usr/pkg.

I remember (dimly) that doing a pkgsrc/bootstrap asks you where
you want certain things installed, like the rc.d directory, just
as one example.

It does?! When I ran the bootstrap script it just..... ran! Didn't ask
me any questions :-)

Are there gurus out there who can give us the real facts?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Mark Cullen wrote:

walt wrote:

Mark Cullen wrote:
[...][

The problem: the rc.d script doesn't seem to get installed.

---

=========================================================================== ===========================================================================
The following files should be created for apcupsd-3.8.6nb5:

/etc/rc.d/apcupsd (m=0755)

Well, God knows I'm no expert, but I'm wondering if the script
got installed in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/ instead?

It wasn't in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/, but I assume you meant to say /etc/rc.d/
there? :-) Well spotted, I never checked there for it! I'll have a look at
that one later.

The confusion seems to be built into the pkgsrc utilities, e.g., if
you don't specify any directories when running bootstrap, it puts
the mk.conf in /usr/pkg/etc. But, the pkg_chk utility will look
at /etc/mk.conf by default unless to tell it to look in /usr/pkg/etc.

Very confusing. Try running bootstrap --help to see what you can
specify. Not that you would want to change the defaults, but I did
because I was trying to juggle pkgsrc and ports for awhile and got
pretty lost in the fog.

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:47:17AM -0700, walt wrote:

The confusion seems to be built into the pkgsrc utilities, e.g., if
you don't specify any directories when running bootstrap, it puts
the mk.conf in /usr/pkg/etc. But, the pkg_chk utility will look
at /etc/mk.conf by default unless to tell it to look in /usr/pkg/etc.

At least bmake doesn't really care. It tries ${PREFIX}/etc/mk.conf and
/etc/mk.conf in that order. pkg_chk is not supposed to care either, but
I will talk with the author about this bug.

For rc scripts, they go to /etc/rc.d by default (RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR),
unless overridden. Putting them anywhere but /etc/rc.d makes IMO only
useless trouble though.

Joerg