Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:59:32PM -0500, Matthias Maier wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, at 18:49 CDT, Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, at 18:20 CDT, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I have received a request to implement a feature in OpenRC to allow
> >> multiple software packages to drop files in a directory, /etc/modules.d
> >> for example, which would define modules the /etc/init.d/modules script
> >> would load.
> 
> One more point, /etc/modules.d was used back in the old update-modules
> times. So, maybe we should avoid the directory due to historic reasons
> [1].

Sure, the directory name was just an example.

I was thinking of doing something a little more elaborate so that I
could support all of the module/version/etc combinations documented in
/etc/conf.d/modules, but I'm open to making the behaviour compatible
with what systemd does; that would be a good case probably for doing it
that way.

William


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