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List:       macports-dev
Subject:    Re: GSoC 2018 Project: Improve startupitem code
From:       Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla () macports ! org>
Date:       2018-02-15 18:04:49
Message-ID: 9A045BD4-FF33-4E7E-979F-4DB2EB3286DC () macports ! org
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I don't know that I have a great idea of how to improve startupitems functionality.

I know that over time I have found a few issues. Take the clamav port for example. I \
needs two launchd plists, one for clamd which is daemon and another for freshclam \
which updates the antivirus database.

How to handle two launchd plists with "port load" command? Separate ports?

And freshclam is not a service and only needs to run once a day (StartInterval). \
Currently I have plists in the files directory copy them to distroot.

I think the current system largely works but if there was a way to register launchd \
plists so "port load clam-server" would load one of more plists multiple locations \
that might be a nice way to make the "port load" command work in most all cases.

The common locations where launchd plists need to be loaded from:
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Josh, worth considering?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

> On Feb 14, 2018, at 10:29 PM, Umesh Singla <umeshksingla@macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Brad, any thoughts on this? We already have a student interested in this project.
> 
> And thanks for informing, Josh.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Joshua Root <jmr@macports.org> wrote:
> On 2018-2-14 22:11 , Umesh Singla wrote:
> > For any discussions on this project, we can follow this thread. I am
> > cc'ing dev list if anyone has any question or idea or extension to it. 
> > 
> > > The first thing I would like you to do is to go through our current list of \
> > > projects on Trac [0]. 
> > > Try adding/updating the descriptions for your projects or let me know. Remove \
> > > anything which is outdated. As you probably know, you can also propose a new \
> > > idea. 
> > > Also, is there any project which you would like me to move up on the list? \
> > > Currently, there are two projects on the list, "Improve startupitem code" and \
> > > "Generating Portfiles" listing you as a potential mentor.
> > 
> > 
> > I'd love to see the startup item code more closely mirror the
> > capabilities of launchd :)
> > 
> > It would be able great to write some short hand in a portfile that
> > builds an xml launchd plist.
> > 
> > 
> > That's good to know. I've moved this project up the list.
> 
> Just a heads-up, I have been reviewing all the tickets about
> startupitems recently (after having ideas percolate for a long time) and
> have just started committing code. I may close most or all of the
> existing tickets in the not too distant future.
> 
> No doubt there is still more that could be done; just be aware this work
> is happening when planning any potential GSoC project.
> 
> - Josh
> 


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