From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 4 21:21:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA17254 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 21:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bdd.net (bdd.net [207.61.119.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17247 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 21:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (james@localhost) by bdd.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA13855 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 00:21:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 00:21:14 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Opinions of port vs package please Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a question with regards to building a PLIST for a port which is interactive. Let's say the port allows you to choose which binaries it will build. When making the package, I plan to build all the binaries rather than second guess the people using it. So, I put all the installed binaries into the PLIST. Now, if the program is installed as a port rather than a package, the list of installed files might be incorrect, depending on which binaries that person chose to install. What's the best course of action here ? Let it be, and deal with the possible "File doesn't really exist" messages during a pkg_delete ? Or use an interactive de-install script in the uninstall ? -- j. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | James FitzGibbon james@nexis.net | | Integrator, The Nexis Group Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------