From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 11 9:51: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ns2.warpnet.ro [194.153.243.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C757B37B4C5 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10749; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:53:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ady@freebsd.ady.ro) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:53:33 +0200 (EET) From: Adrian Penisoara X-Sender: ady@ady.warpnet.ro To: Igor Roshchin Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine4 port rewrites /usr/local/etc/pine.conf In-Reply-To: <200010311544.KAA52666@giganda.komkon.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Excerpt from mail/pine4/Makefile: ${PREFIX}/bin/pine -P ${PREFIX}/etc/pine.conf -conf >${WRKSRC}/pine.conf ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/pine.conf ${PREFIX}/etc/pine.conf That means that when recreating the pine.conf file it will use the previous defaults ! This has been done in order that ${PREFIX}/etc/pine.conf will be "upgraded" tot the latest syntax that the pine port is using. Does this solve your problem ? Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Hello! > > One more question about pine4 port: > > When I compiled and installed pine4 ports from sources > it rewrote the system-wide /usr/local/etc/pine.conf without any > warning. > Usually, other ports/packages (e.g. wu-ftpd, apache, ..) > just copy file.conf.example or file.conf.default into the target > directory without overwriting the existing conf file. > > Somebody might suggest to use /usr/local/etc/pine.conf.fixed > which is not rewritten by the installation script. > It's possible, but the options which are in pine.conf.fixed > can not be overwritten by the users, while I'd like to have some > default options in /usr/local/etc/pine.conf that an experienced > user may reconfigure for himself. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message