Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:00:18 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Subject: Re: New version of the fakeroot patch Message-ID: <200912151000.19393.tijl@coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <4B274487.7080505@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20091214151318.GC1016@wicklow.lan> <fee671620912140959q32257e1er92e2825f55a0c968@mail.gmail.com> <4B274487.7080505@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Tuesday 15 December 2009 09:10:47 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Uh -- is it actually possible to create an empty directory when
> installing from a pkg tarball?
>
> I ran into this problem with the phpMyAdmin port, and the only good
> way I found to solve it was to add a stub file into any empty
> directories. You could use a post install script or an mtree file,
> but that seems like overkill for such a trivial operation.
If you want to create ${PREFIX}/somedir you can add this line
to pkg-plist:
@exec mkdir -p %D/somedir
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