Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:17:07 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: empty dirs needed in package Message-ID: <4205FCB3.9000800@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200502060920.j169KvTD056755@chilled.skew.org> References: <200502060920.j169KvTD056755@chilled.skew.org>
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Mike Brown a écrit :
> Hi again,
>
> My port creates some empty directories. They won't always be empty,
> if certain features of the software are used.
>
> I need installing from a pacakge to result in the creation of these
> directories. Apparently, 'make package' produces a package that has
> no idea that it needs to create these directories, since there is no
> way, AFAIK, to specify empty dirs in a pkg-plist.
>
> Since there are @dirrm entries for these directories in my pkg-plist,
> doing a 'make deinstall' after a 'pkg_add' results in complaints
> that the directories don't exist.
>
> What's the proper way to deal with this?
>
> Do I do something special to the pkg-plist?
> Do I use a custom +MTREE_DIRS somehow when making the package?
> Do I remove the @dirrm entries and put something in a post-deinstall
> target in the Makefile instead?
I guess using something like that will be good :
@exec mkdir -p %D/path/to/dir
Note that %D is needed, and will be handled as ${PREFIX} by
pkg_create.
--
Florent Thoumie
flz@xbsd.org
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