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From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To: Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Stage and /var ?
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:20:25 +0100 Thierry Thomas wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How should we stagify ports writing out of their $PREFIX for
> good reasons, e.g. a statedir like /var/foo/$PORTNAME.
> 
> I don't like the idea of $PREFIX/var, and prefer the real /var.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.

Something like this should work:


In post-install do: ${MKDIR} /var/foo

In pkg-plist add:

@unexec rmdir /var/foo 2>/dev/null || true
@exec mkdir -p /var/foo