From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 19 12:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.heartland.ab.ca (jasper.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7113037BC43 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:11:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Received: from hagenhomes.com (dyn110.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.110]) by jasper.heartland.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA24947; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:48:23 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <38AEF893.37187BB6@hagenhomes.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:09:55 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe Organization: Hagen Homes Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: C J Michaels Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a port: What about config files? References: <004e01bf7b0a$59909440$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Removing a port should NEVER blow away your settings IMHO. I think that the books says the same thing. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com C J Michaels wrote: > > Hi, > I have a simple port I maintain, but I'm still fairly new to these things. > I have a question about the config file. Is it proper to put the config > file in the PLIST or not? I mean, if you are just removing the port to > reinstall it or upgrade it, you probably wouldn't want your config file > removed. But, if you are removing the port permanently you probably would. > > I would think to leave the config file out of the PLIST, but I wanted to > know if there was a "right" way to do things. > > Thanks, > -Chris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message