From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 16 3:46:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (peedub.muc.de [193.149.49.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE84A14D31 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA31027 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:45:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199910161045.MAA31027@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: empty directories ? From: Gary Jennejohn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:45:36 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm working on updating the xemacs21 port to version 21.1.7. I noticed that, when installed using the port, a whole slew of empty directories is created in the PREFIX. These are apparently place-holders for various packages and I @dirrm them in PLIST. These directories are not created by pkg_add unless I ``@exec mkdir'' them in PLIST. The result is a bunch of error messages when pkg_delete is done if I don't do the mkdir's. I'm just wondering - should I mkdir all these empty directories so that pkg_delete doesn't complain, or just let the user think there's something wrong ? Seems like mkdir'ing is better from a POLA viewpoint. -------- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message