Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:38:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about PLIST Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961028093414.717A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961027200856.3878A-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > What empty subdirs? Why does the application need empty subdirs? > > That's easily gotten around by making 0 sized files, but why? Okay, that makes sense, and come to think of it, I don't need to make an empty subdir (it's created the first time it's needed). However, I have an even bigger problem with uninstalling than I first reported. The @dirrm directive will only cause pkg_delete to delete EMPTY subdirectories. However, when the user clicks "Update Tuner", it will cause additional files to be dumped into /usr/local/lib/castanet/tuner that the package utility won't know about. I could write a shell script for uninstall to forcably remove /usr/local/lib/castanet, but that seems excessive. It looks like I'm going to have to manually add all the filenames to PLIST just to keep pkg_delete reasonably happy, and then in addition make an uninstall script to delete the new files that have showed up. What a lot of extra trouble, though! -- Jake
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