Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/25720: [chinese/pine4] Uninstall unnecessary configuration file during pkg_delete Message-ID: <200103121040.f2CAe3890905@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/25720; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG> Cc: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/25720: [chinese/pine4] Uninstall unnecessary configuration file during pkg_delete Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:32:10 +0800 (CST) On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Clive Lin wrote: > Well, I think simply add etc/pine.conf would be sufficient. If > pine.conf isn't modified, it would be removed. If it's customized, > pkg_delete would not remove it because the checksum would > mismatch. How do you think ? Uhh, the "-conf" argument in pine was designed to generate per-version specific global configuration file. IMHO, the original idea to use @exec in PLIST was to generate such version dependent config file without committing latest version of files/pine.conf every time when pine is upgraded. files/pine.conf contains only zh-pine related directive currently, not global config information. Actually it should be renamed to pine.conf.sample to prevent from confusing. > [...] > -- Regards, Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Multimedia Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Yuan Ze University Taiwan, Republic of China To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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