Re: apcupsd pkgsrc package install is slightly broken

[Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@xxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> Mark Cullen wrote:
> [...][
>
> > The problem: the rc.d script doesn't seem to get installed.
> >
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> > ===========================================================================
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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?

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?