Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:31:13 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: pine@freebsd.ady.ro, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pine.conf Message-ID: <39395D01.9A4DC9A7@gorean.org> References: <200006030834.BAA75878@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> mail/pine4/pkg/PLIST is creating pine.conf using the following two lines:
>
> @exec %D/bin/pine -P %D/etc/pine.conf -conf >%D/etc/pine.conf.tmp
> @exec /bin/mv %D/etc/pine.conf.tmp %D/etc/pine.conf
>
> I'm not sure what the -P option of pine does
It specifies a specific conf file to use, instead of the default.
> but this raises the following questions:
>
> (1) Does it preserve the user's existing pine.conf? (I assume it
> does, but just checking.)
Yes.
> (2) What would be an acceptable way of removing it on deinstallation?
> Is there a way to determine whether the user modified it to be
> something other than the "default" pine.conf? (If it is modified,
> it shouldn't be removed -- if it is not, then it can safely be
> removed, since a new installation will regenerate it properly.)
'pine -conf' will generate a default file for that version of pine on
stdout. You could diff the installed version against that to detect
changes.
HTH,
Doug
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