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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 05:21:55 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting
Message-ID:  <20050114132155.GA42830@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050114144353.1aad2014@apircalabu.dsd.ro>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:43:53PM +0200, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:06:38 +0100
> Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> wrote:
>=20
> > > It's better to use ~/.your_port directory in such cases.
> >=20
> > For system-wide defaults? Put them in /root/.foo.conf rather than
> > /usr/local/etc/foo.conf?
>=20
> For these specific cases, I do not think he meant installing anything
> that should go system-wide in some user's home directory. Instead, I'm
> thinking about setting port's dirs/files into ${PREFIX}/portname/
> following a standard UNIX structure as in:
> ${PREFIX}/portname/bin/
> ${PREFIX}/portname/etc/
> ${PREFIX}/portname/lib/
> ${PREFIX}/portname/share/
> ${PREFIX}/portname/var/
> and so on (where PREFIX will likely be /usr/local). All dirs/files
> placed outside the above directory scheme will be completely deleted at
> deinstall.
> In my case, after port's deinstall, there will always be files left in
> ${PREFIX}/portname/. Is this a reason for tagging the port
> BROKEN/IGNORE?

Yes, it doesn't change the rules :-)

Kris

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