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The runit Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: runit
Version: 2.0.0
Category: sysutils
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: sanityinc.com:macports
Description: collection of tools for managing UNIX services
Long Description: runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, fashioned after daemontools. It includes tools for starting, restarting, stopping, monitoring and logging any services that you might wish to run.

Homepage: http://smarden.org/runit/
Master Sites: http://smarden.org/runit/
Checksums: ${distname}.tar.gz md5 63c53d313736f444a53a7451bfa76991
worksrcdir admin/${worksrcdir}
use_configure no

build.cmd package/compile
build.target

pre-build {
system "cd ${worksrcpath} && echo 'cc -Xlinker -x' >src/conf-ld"
reinplace "s| -static||g" ${worksrcpath}/src/Makefile
# Force use of select() rather than broken poll()
file copy -force ${worksrcpath}/src/iopause.h1 ${worksrcpath}/src/iopause.h2
}
post-build {
system "cd ${workpath}/${worksrcdir}/man && gzip *.8"
}

startupitem.create yes
startupitem.name ${name}
startupitem.executable sh -c "PATH=\"${prefix}/sbin:${prefix}/bin:\$PATH\" exec '${prefix}/sbin/runsvdir' '${prefix}/var/service' 'log: ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................'"

destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -s -W ${worksrcpath}/command runsv runsvdir sv svlogd utmpset chpst runsvchdir ${destroot}${prefix}/sbin
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath}/doc benefits.html chpst.8.html dependencies.html faq.html index.html install.html replaceinit.html runit-init.8.html runit.8.html runlevels.html runscripts.html runsv.8.html runsvchdir.8.html runsvdir.8.html sv.8.html svlogd.8.html upgrade.html usedietlibc.html useinit.html utmpset.8.html ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man8
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath}/man chpst.8.gz runit-init.8.gz runit.8.gz runsv.8.gz runsvchdir.8.gz runsvdir.8.gz sv.8.gz svlogd.8.gz utmpset.8.gz ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man8
}

post-install {
ui_msg "\nCreate ${prefix}/var/service, then add service subdirectories as required; the startup item will then supervise these services by default."
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/runit
%  sudo port install runit  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching runit
--->  Verifying checksum for runit
--->  Extracting runit
--->  Configuring runit
--->  Building runit with target all

--->  Staging runit into destroot

--->  Installing runit

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using runit with these commands:

%  man runit
%  apropos runit
%  which runit
%  locate runit

 Where to find more information: