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From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: How to reference /var/foo in pkg-plist?
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> wrote:
> 
> > Try something like this in pkg-plist:
> > 
> > @unexec rm -d /var/foo 2>/dev/null || true
> > @exec install -d -o uucp -g uucp -m 0770 /var/foo
> > 
> > The directory is created on installation and removed (if empty) on
> > deletion, but is not actually part of the package archive.
> 
> @exec install -d -o uucp -g uucp -m 0770 /var/spool/bsmtp
> @unexec rmdir /var/spool/bsmtp 2>/dev/null || true
> 
> ===>  Building package for bsmtp-1.02_5
> pkg-static: lstat(/usr/ports/mail/bsmtp/work/stage/var/spool/bsmtp/): No such file or directory

This is why I used rm -d instead of rmdir.  The pkg tools recognise
rmdir and treat it in a special way.