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Re: spiped 1.2.1 released



On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:21:27PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 08/31/12 17:03, James Turner wrote:
> > I've submitted a port [0] to OpenBSD with the appropriate patches, so
> > hopefully it will get imported.
> > 
> > [0] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=134645718729013&w=2 
> 
> Cool, hopefully this will get more people using spiped.
> 
> Two minor suggestions:
> 
> 1. In the FreeBSD port I'm installing the spiped and spipe README files as
> README-foo, while you're installing them as README.foo; I think there's a
> (very weak) argument to be made for consistency in the names these are
> installed under.
> 
> 2. I don't know how compatible OpenBSD's rc.d code is with FreeBSD's, but
> you might find that the rc.d script I wrote for FreeBSD is useful, either
> as-is or as an inspiration for an OpenBSD rc.d script:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/spiped/files/spiped.in?revision=300897&view=markup
> 
> -- 
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
> 

I've taken your considerations into account and submitted an updated
port [0]. I changed the README naming style to use hyphens rather then dots.

I also included a simple rc script. OpenBSD's pkg rc.d system isn't as
complex as FreeBSD's so the rc script uses the ssh tunnel example for
it's default daemon flags.

[0] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=134646865431077&w=2

-- 
James Turner
james@calminferno.net