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Date:      Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:19:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>,  ports@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: How to best run a script post installation _and_ deinstallation?
Message-ID:  <alpine.LNX.2.00.1109130215500.3106@gerinyyl.fvgr>
In-Reply-To: <20110523130954.GB71868@atarininja.org>
References:  <alpine.LNX.2.00.1105222256250.13877@gerinyyl.fvgr> <20110523130954.GB71868@atarininja.org>

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On Sun, 22 May 2011, Doug Barton wrote:
> Will @unexec in pkg-plist do the job?

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Wesley Shields wrote:
> Are these what you are looking for:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/pkg-install.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/pkg-deinstall.html

Yes and no (to both questions).

I have been looking for a silver bullet that avoids having
  (a) something in the post-install target plus an @exec and an @unexec
      and thus redundancy, or
  (b) two extra scripts and thus two extra files in the port.  

Alas, I failed at that, and Emanuel convinced me that apparently there
is no way to avoid one of these two deaths.

That looks like a nice project for someone to improve our general
infrastructure along these lines.

Gerald



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