Macports 2.5.0 multiple startupitems

[macports at parvis.nl]

> On 2018-05-27, at 20:41, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-5-28 04:14 , macports at parvis.nl wrote:
>> I would very much like to us several startupitems for munin's different daemons. 
>> However I cannot find any documentation yet, other than patches, and that makes it difficult to read and understand.
>> 
>> I created a ticket [1] for not being able to compile the github 2.5 guide.
>> 
>> Perhaps one of your guru's can give a short summary?
> 
> There is an option called 'startupitems' that contains a list of
> key/value pairs. These correspond to the various startupitem.* options.
> It works a lot like the add_users option, with each pair applying to the
> name that occurred most recently in the list.
> 
> To give an example:
> 
> startupitem.create	yes
> startupitems		name foo \
> 			executable ${prefix}/bin/foo
> 
> This is exactly equivalent to:
> 
> startupitem.create	yes
> startupitem.name	foo
> startupitem.executable	${prefix}/bin/foo
> 
> But the interesting part is that you can do this:
> 
> startupitems		name foo \
> 			executable ${prefix}/bin/foo \
> 			name bar \
> 			start "${prefix}/bin/bar start" \
> 			stop "${prefix}/bin/bar shutdown" \
> 			pid ${prefix}/var/run/bar/bar.pid
> 
> This will create two launchd plists, org.macports.foo.plist and
> org.macports.bar.plist. The former will launch an executable directly,
> the latter will use a start/stop script and a pid file.
> 
> - Josh

Thanks.

BTW not documented in the Guide after 2.5.0 has been released.

And how does 'port load <port>' work with multiple startupitems?

paul.