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Am 02.05.2014 18:04, schrieb Bryan Drewery:
> On 2014-05-02 11:01, Christoph Theis wrote:
>> @Andrey: My intention was to create that directory during
>> installation. I think it is wrong to create it in $STAGEDIR instead
>> during post-install. But what would be the correct way to create a
>> /var/db directory used at runtime only and nothing is copied there
>> during installation?
>
> It's not proper to create directories outside of STAGEDIR in post-install.

So the correct way is to create the directory in $STAGEDIR/var/db in 
post-install. And it is there. But why isn't it created in /var/db then?

Sorry to bother you but I don't know enough details of port installation 
to debug that.