Re:rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc
by jmmv on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:36AM
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/libexec is already on the root partition, at least on NetBSD, and that's why I wrote the paths that way in the article.
And that's why I also mentioned en passing that sourcing local files from a potential /usr/pkg/libexec/rc.d/ directory would be problematic.
In fact, even today, making rc.d files automatically work from installed packages is a problem precisely because of this: those files currently end up in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/, and /etc/rc cannot use them by default because /usr/pkg/ might be in a different partition. There have been endless and repeated discussions about this issue on the NetBSD mailing lists.
And that's why I also mentioned en passing that sourcing local files from a potential /usr/pkg/libexec/rc.d/ directory would be problematic.
In fact, even today, making rc.d files automatically work from installed packages is a problem precisely because of this: those files currently end up in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/, and /etc/rc cannot use them by default because /usr/pkg/ might be in a different partition. There have been endless and repeated discussions about this issue on the NetBSD mailing lists.