move the SunOS r-commands into the rcmds package
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Authored by ivy on May 4 2025, 9:58 AM.

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rG47cf7c780a3e: move the SunOS r-commands into the rcmds package

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rup, rusers and rwall implement the SunOS remote status utilities based
on RPC. these are not widely used nowadays and most users won't have
them enabled, so there's no reason to ship them in the utilities
packages.

move the command-line utilities and their respective daemons into the
rcmds package, which already contains the related utilities rwho and
ruptime.

improve the comment/description of the rcmds package to be more
informative and mention its new contents.

while here, standardise formatting in the affected Makefiles.

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ivy created this revision.May 4 2025, 9:58 AM

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ivy requested review of this revision.May 4 2025, 9:58 AM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B63864: Diff 154783.May 4 2025, 9:58 AM

fix an erroneous edit in Makefile.package

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B63865: Diff 154784.May 4 2025, 10:03 AM

I'd be in facour of removing these entirely (as was done with rsh and rcp) but making sure these are in an appropriate optional package is a good first step.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 4 2025, 2:49 PM

In D50143#1143826, @emaste wrote:

I'd be in facour of removing these entirely (as was done with rsh and rcp) but making sure these are in an appropriate optional package is a good first step.

if we're going to remove these we should move them to ports since they're still interesting for retrocomputing, and probably the same for rbootd and rpc.sprayd. but with 15.0R suddenly looming i was reminded that it would be nice to clean up some of the packages (especially utilities) before the stable fork since it'll be a lot harder to do afterwards.

Yea.... These RPC commands originated in SunOS 3 (2?) and were in early FreeBSD and NetBSD, but weren't in 4.4BSD.

Not sure it's worth the quibble that they are sunos/bsd, since that's pre-existing.

manu accepted this revision.May 5 2025, 5:39 AM

des accepted this revision.May 5 2025, 10:56 AM

Closed by commit rG47cf7c780a3e: move the SunOS r-commands into the rcmds package (authored by ivy). · Explain WhyMay 5 2025, 3:40 PM

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