From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 27 19:37:41 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06C437B404; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D82C43E4A; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9S3aZZ21215; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:36:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/nwclient602 pkg-plist In-Reply-To: <20021028031512.GA42590@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for clarifying it. Seems a good change. On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:01:56PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Please back it out and discuss it with me some first, okay? I need to > > understand what you're trying to accomplish with removing a a directory > > which may have critical modified user data in it. > > > > It's quite possible that the whole pkg-plist is flawed wrt how ports > > stuff should work, but I believe that since I'm actively maintaining > > this port that you might want to at least tell me where you think its > > wrong. > > Every other file and directory created under this directory is already > being removed, and if by chance some other user-created files happen > to be left behind, the rmdir will fail and the files will be preserved > (the pre-existing rmdirs will also fail in this case). > > This commit will not damage any user data, and its purpose is to make > 'make install deinstall' of the port (or equivalent pkg_add ...; > pkg_delete ...) revert the system to an untouched state. > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message