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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 19:02:08
Message-ID: C74A5781-451D-4B3B-978D-68047D1C195C () macports ! org
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> On Feb 15, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Joshua Root <jmr@macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-2-16 05:04 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> This is <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44295>.

Is this one of the issues you are closing?

> > 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.
> 
> I've thought about that. It should be possible to allow not setting
> startupitem.create but rather providing your own plist if you require a
> level of customisation beyond what base allows. That way we don't have
> to add Tcl options for every launchd key under the sun.

And changes Apple may make.

> > The common locations where launchd plists need to be loaded from:
> > ~/Library/LaunchAgents
> 
> Installing into ~ is problematic in general. I don't think it's really
> needed; per-user stuff can live in /Library/LaunchAgents.

Of course, thanks for the point.

So we might have "startupitem.directory /Library/LaunchDaemons", the default, but can \
be set to "startupitem.directory /Library/LaunchAgents"?

—
Brad


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