I always, always start vmware-server manually with "/etc/init.d/vmware start". However, every recent upgrade has added it to my default runlevel when I run vmware-config.pl (or emerge --config vmware-server). Using the --skip-stop-start flag is not helpful here either; /etc/init.d/vmware still gets added to the default runlevel, and without prompting. Customary Gentoo behavior for services is that adding to the default runlevel is a conscious task for the administrator to perform. (Or whatever runlevel is desired, actually; the package itself cannot simply assume that willy-nilly either, just as it cannot assume the administrator wants it added to any of them.) It violates one's expectations to have a service added to the default runlevel by simply emerging it or running its configure script. A brief examination of /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl did not reveal to me where in the scripts this is invoked, actually, so any advice on that would be appreciated and would help me provide a patch for this behavior (as an overlay for myself even if the change is not accepted into the tree). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge app-emulation/vmware-server 2. emerge --config vmware-server 3. Answer a few questions Actual Results: Between questions, observe /etc/init.d/vmware being presumptively added to the default runlevel without further ado. Expected Results: Adding /etc/init.d/vmware to the default runlevel, or any other, should be left to the administrator.
Here is the current patch, that does enable runlevel update: --- bin.old/vmware-config.pl 2009-07-02 17:56:08.873568674 -0400 +++ bin/vmware-config.pl 2009-07-02 17:56:59.000000000 -0400 @@ -1341,6 +1341,14 @@ } } + # Try using Genoot's rc-config + if ($gHelper{'rc-config'} ne '') { + if(0 == system(shell_string($gHelper{'rc-config'}) . ' add ' + . $service . ' default')) { + return; + } + } + # Set up vmware to start/stop at run levels 2, 3 and 5 link_runlevel(2, $service, $S_level, $K_level); link_runlevel(3, $service, $S_level, $K_level);
vmware server was removed from the tree. Bug 374599.
