Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 02:13:36 +0100 From: Shaun Amott <shaun@inerd.com> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good examples of not deleting custom config files/installing new config files Message-ID: <20060527011335.GB1884@picobyte.net> In-Reply-To: <37663.192.168.0.10.1148686196.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> References: <37663.192.168.0.10.1148686196.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 04:29:56PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
>
> Could someone point me to some ports that do a good job of not
> deleting custom config files when you do updates? I'd like to
> incorporate something similar into my ports. Currently, I just
> install everything with a .sample and put a note in the pkg-message.
> Which works great for upgrades, but not for the initial install. And
> as my ports go into the "multiple-dozens of config files in multipls
> sub-directory" area, it's getting to be a pain for the users to copy
> files around.
>
www/horde does it in pkg-(install|deinstall) - handy if you have quite a
few files; but the more common way is to do a comparison in pkg-plist:
net-im/ejabberd is a fairly typical example of this method.
Essentially, you just need to use 'cmp -s' to determine whether any of
the files differ from their .sample counterparts.
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Shaun Amott [ PGP: 0x6B387A9A ]
Scientia Est Potentia.
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