[22490] trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile

[James Berry]

On Mar 3, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

> Is this +no_startupitem variant really smart?
>
> I recently had a request to add a +without_startupitem variant to a  
> port I maintain and rejected the request; since startupitems simply  
> enable a port to be started at boot time, but do not cause a port  
> to be booted at start time, it simply seems stupid to deliberately  
> cripple a server port such that a user would have to reinstall it  
> if they wanted to start the port at boot time later.
>
> BTW: If the variant is to be retained, can it be named  
> +without_startupitem instead?

Unless I'm missing something, I see no reason whatsoever for the  
no_startupitem variant, or anything like it.

Using the startup item strategy, we have two cases, systemstarter  
(pre tiger) and launchd (tiger++):

SystemStarter: The code generated by port for system starter  
automatically looks for an enable flag from /etc/hostconfig, and this  
is -NO- by default. So by default the port won't be run.

Launchd: Likewise, the launchd.plist file generated for a port is not  
enabled by default, so by default the server won't be run.

The only reason I see for having a +server variant in some cases is  
if building the server is way too onerous (like perhaps in the case  
of mysql where somebody just wants to build the client but not the  
server). Still this is debatable.

Okay, so what possible rationale did I miss?

James




>
> On 2 Mar 2007, at 16:51, source_changes at macosforge.org wrote:
>
>> Revision 22490 Author blair at macports.org Date 2007-03-02 13:51:15  
>> -0800 (Fri, 02 Mar 2007) Log MessageAdd a +no_startupitem variant  
>> that prevents the automatic startup of the Apache web  
>> server.Modified Paths
>> trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile
>> Diff
>> Modified: trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile (22489 => 22490)---  
>> trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile	2007-03-02 20:42:45 UTC (rev  
>> 22489) +++ trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile	2007-03-02 21:51:15  
>> UTC (rev 22490) @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ configure.args-append --with- 
>> mpm=event } +variant no_startupitem { +	startupitem.create	no +} +  
>> startupitem.create	yes startupitem.start	\ "\[ -x ${prefix}/ 
>> apache2/bin/apachectl \] && ${prefix}/apache2/bin/apachectl start  
>> > /dev/null" @@ -112,4 +116,3 @@ "\[ -r ${prefix}/apache2/logs/ 
>> httpd.pid \] && ${prefix}/apache2/bin/apachectl stop > /dev/null"  
>> startupitem.restart	\ "\[ -r ${prefix}/apache2/logs/httpd.pid \]  
>> && ${prefix}/apache2/bin/apachectl restart > /dev/null" -
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