Hi,

When you talk of daemons Arch uses /etc/rc.d for start up scripts so I
could write one to start openpkg if required ...or add it to rc.local

What I need to do is some load up openpkg (read the manual lol)

Which version do you suggest I try first ?

Mr G

On 9/2/05, Christoph Schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005, Mr Green wrote:
> 
> > I thought you could use openpkg on most distros (from reading docs)
> 
> That's right despite the point where bootstrap package hooks into the
> base system. Basically, the boostrap adds a limited number of users and
> groups, registers in the systems crontab and startup scripts. That's is,
> just some very basic things.
> 
> Unfortunatelly most Linux distributions tend to implement most basic
> things most differently. So we need these kind of adjustments in
> the bootstap package (called 'openpkg' itself) for every different
> implementation.
> 
> So I guess, currently adding users and groups and registering in
> /etc/openpkg will work under Arch Linux. Altering system crontab and
> hooking into startup script mechanism will fail.
> 
> So if you can life with the limitations, that cron jobs of OpenPKG
> packages and automatic starting of daemons will not work, you can check
> out OpenPKG of course. If you provide as with information and/or patches
> how to implement the missing functionality we would be happy to add Arch
> Linux support to OpenPKG.
> 
> --
> christoph schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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