Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 22:09:27 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lists of files and directories missing from PLIST Message-ID: <200005022009.WAA08799@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 May 2000 13:29:29 PDT." <vqcitwydnfa.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes: > * From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> > > * I'm wondering about ports like vile and xvile (which I maintain) which > * share directories (specifically lib/vile and doc/vile). If a user has > * both installed and decides to delete on of them we don't want to pull > * the rug out from under his feet by arbitrarily nuking everything. > >According to the handbook, you can do something like > >@unexec rmdir %D/lib/vile 2>/dev/null || true > >to remove the directory only if it is empty, and fail quietly if it >doesn't so the user doesn't get scared. > Yes, but you say that leaving a file/directory behind will become a fatal error at some time in the future. If I leave some files in a dir because I know another port needs them, then that should not be considered fatal. How to differentiate, that's the problem. I guess the simplest solution is just to redundantly install the files in unique directories :( --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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