Creating a startupitem for nsd

[Gerben Wierda]

Answering my own question: I had to add a ‘revision’ keyword in the Portfile. After that, the install re-installed.

Gerben Wierda
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> On 11 Aug 2019, at 16:19, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> 
> In addition, just editing the Portfile and running another port install is apparently not enough. How do I get MacPorts to just do the LaunchDaemon install after I have edited the Portfile?
> 
> Gerben
> 
>> On 11 Aug 2019, at 16:05, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl <mailto:gerben.wierda at rna.nl>> wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve been playing around with MacPorts and I have installed nsd as an authoritative DNS server. (unbound doesn’t handle CNAME, so it is either use BIND or have both nsd and unbound)
>> 
>> unbound comes with a LaunchDaemon plist, nsd doesn’t. So my first mod looks to be that I will have to change the portfile to include startupitem information.
>> 
>> As I understand it:
>> I need to edit /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports/net/nsd/Portfile <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports/net/nsd/Portfile> (with port edit) and add the startup item stuff there directly (copy original to Portfile.orig first of course). Questions: If I do that, will not MacPorts overwrite my modified Portfile in some scenarios? Will port edit create the Portfile.orig?
>> And everything I need to do for this change can be done by modifying the Portfile.
>> And what I gather from the documentation that I can offer the diff later as an improvement.
>> Correct?
>> 
>> It seems to me I just have to add this to the Portfile:
>> 
>> startupitem.create  yes
>> startupitem.name    nsd
>> startupitem.start   "${prefix}/sbin/nsd"
>> startupitem.stop    "/bin/kill \$(cat ${prefix}/var/run/${name}/nsd.pid)"
>> 
>> Gerben Wierda
>> Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <http://enterprisechess.com/>
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>> On Slippery Ice <https://eapj.org/on-slippery-ice/> at EAPJ
>> 
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