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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:12:45 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to reference /var/foo in pkg-plist?
Message-ID:  <526AECDD.6060606@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <l4eive$e4e$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <l4eive$e4e$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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On 25/10/2013 21:06, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> For a crufty port of mine that I'm converting to staging, I'm trying
> this in pkg-plist:
>=20
>   @exec mkdir -pm 770 /var/spool/bsmtp; chown uucp:uucp /var/spool/bsmt=
p
>   @dirrmtry /var/spool/bsmtp
>=20
> Alas, it doesn't package:
>=20
>   =3D=3D=3D>  Building package for bsmtp-1.02_5
>   pkg-static: lstat(/usr/ports/mail/bsmtp/work/stage/var/spool/bsmtp/):=

>   No such file or directory
>=20
> This isn't meant to reference ${STAGEDIR}/var/spool/bsmtp, I really
> want the absolute path /var/spool/bsmtp.  Adding @cwd / doesn't
> help.
>=20
> What's the correct way to handle this?

Use a pkg-install.sh script, or add code to an rc script to create any
necessary directory structure when a daemon is first started.  Usually
working data stored under /var (and any necessary directory structure to
hold it) is not counted as part of the port and not deleted on package
deinstallation or upgrade.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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