From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 16:52:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E17F37B419 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C27471DA for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:52:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E14526C17 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CCF2E1F.EEF74273@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:51:59 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: make install wrapper? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a way to, or does anyone know of a (collection of) script(s) that can take the makefile for a source package and build a second script around it that backs up any files that will be overwritten before installing the compiled package, create an uninstall script if one isn't present, and handles restoration of the old files after an uninstall? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message