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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:13:36 +0300
From:      Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sergei Vyshenski <svysh@cryptocom.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: some languages are more equal that others ?
Message-ID:  <20060918131336.GA942@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
In-Reply-To: <450E94D9.40007@cryptocom.ru>
References:  <000901c6db09$1ac05a00$8311330a@lan.cryptocom.ru> <450E94D9.40007@cryptocom.ru>

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On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:45:13PM +0400, Sergei Vyshenski wrote:
> Dear port experts,
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> Being a maintainer of the port security/p5-openxpki,=20
> I have got a message from the robot of Mark Linimon, which=20
> marked my port "broken" because my pkg-plist has lines:
>=20
> @dirrmtry share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrmtry share/locale/de_DE
> @dirrmtry share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrmtry share/locale/en_GB
>=20
> Robot was not happy with my attempt to erase _empty_ directories=20
> related to en_GB language during deinstalling of the port :
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> =3D=3D=3D Checking filesystem state
> list of files present before this port was installed but missing after it=
=20
> was deinstalled)
> ./usr/local/share/locale/en_GB missing
> ./usr/local/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES missing
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> build of /usr/ports/security/p5-openxpki ended at Fri Sep  8 01:31:16 UTC=
=20
> 2006
>=20
> But it was ok with the robot to erase directories related to de_DE langua=
ge.
>=20
> Could you please let me know policy of FreeBSD about respecting different=
=20
> language settings.
> Shall I include @dirrmtry for all languages except of en_GB?
> What would happen if robot runs at a host with different set of=20
> locale-related empty directories?
> Does port maintenance toolkit has a mean to find out, which locale-relate=
d=20
> empty directories existed on the host before port installation begins?
>=20
> Also. Do you think it is a good idea to let a robot mark ports "broken"=
=20
> because of non technical issue, but rather because of poorly defined=20
> political issue?
>=20

Take a look at /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist, you should not attempt to
delete directories listed there and should delete all directories that
are not listed there and are installed by your port.

--=20
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv

Everyone who has lived has died, but not everyone who has died has lived.

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