Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 03:31:28 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/python/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <199508091031.DAA03855@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <28779.807960268@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* > Modified: lang/python/pkg PLIST
* > Log:
* > List all files in lib/python, plus one @exec/unexec mkdir/rmdir pair
* > for an empty directory.
*
* But.. Why?
Several reasons....
(1) pkg_delete can't delete the subdirectory registered by fake-pkg if
it's only the directory name. (And don't go fix it to use rm -r,
there *might* be user files added after installation.)
(2) Makes it harder to accidentally include some post-installation
addition. I learned my lesson when I shipped my private
dictionary with the Wnn port. ;)
I'm actually thinking of adding --norecurse to the tar command line.
That will solve the above problems by forcing PLIST writers to list
all the files. Also, writing PLIST will simply be a matter of "find ."
.... :) (It doesn't work now because you have to exclude
directories...but have to list empty directories separately....etc.)
Satoshi
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