Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:00:04 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on strange plist problem Message-ID: <4914AC54.4030902@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <4914829B.5090108@FreeBSD.org> References: <20081107170317.GA6878@megatron.madpilot.net> <4914829B.5090108@FreeBSD.org>
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Greg Larkin wrote:
>
> Looking at the port Makefile, I see this:
>
> PLIST_FILES= bin/pokerth %%DATADIR%%/pokerth share/pixmaps/pokerth.png
>
> Those will be the only files deinstalled when the port is deinstalled.
> If the port installs a bunch of other files in ${DATADIR}, as reported
> by QAT, I don't believe they will be deinstalled.
>
> Are you positive that the ${DATADIR} directory is removed on the i386
> platform? From the list of files reported by QAT, it makes sense to
> remove PLIST_FILES from the Makefile and create a pkg-plist file.
I'm positive about this for i386. I checked it twice at home and at work.
I'll anyway make a static plist. Will submit a PR in the next few days.
>
> I've had great success using the ports-mgmt/genplist port to
> automatically generate the pkg-plist file.
>
I'll try it, but in this case the plist will be quite easy to make. Just
a bunch of files in a directory.
I found the port already in this condition and I thought it was ok. Now
That I know it has problems I'll fix those.
--
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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