From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 16 14:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E8714D2E for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from bubble.didi.com (sji-ca1-150.ix.netcom.com [209.109.232.150]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA85102; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA25735; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: empty directories ? References: <199910161045.MAA31027@peedub.muc.de> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 16 Oct 1999 14:57:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn's message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:45:36 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Gary Jennejohn * 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. Well, the first principle of packaging is that a pkg_add'd package should look exactly the same as a "make install"d port. Yes, I think they should be mkdir'd, since they are supposed to be used before. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message