"Christopher W. Curtis" wrote:
> A (I hope) pertinent example: I don't like portmap in the required
> package netbase. I don't like the existing "solution" for diasbling
> it. Why? This is me. Who cares, I'm providing an alternative. Look
> at /etc/init.d/portmap. I'm going to rewrite this script using my
> 'defaults' library as example:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # start/stop portmap daemon.
>
> . /etc/init.d/defaults portmap
[...]
> --------------------------------------------------
Okay. Joey Hess doesn't like two files containing variables. I can
understand this. A reasonable solution would be to change the above
segment to include the 'defaults' file before sourcing, as such:
> --------------------------------------------------
NAME="portmap daemon"
TERM="Stopping $NAME"
RUN_PORTMAP=1
. /etc/init.d/defaults portmap
> --------------------------------------------------
and 'defaults' only sources /etc/init.d/defaults.d/portmap and the
portmap.user file goes away. Having the two seperate simply makes it
easier to create a .user file by copying the default file. I, of
course, still prefer the 'defaults' approach over sourcing the file
directly for the other (imo) benefits.
> Now, if the user wants to turn off portmap, (s)he can just:
>
> echo "RUN_PORTMAP=0" > /etc/init.d/defaults.d/portmap.user
Or, as I wanted to add, can:
echo "exit 0" > /etc/init.d/defaults.d/portmap{.user}
Christopher
