Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:37:24 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about optional setting of symbolic links Message-ID: <20050107183724.GD30931@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <BE0465EA.15028%tomonage2@gmx.de> References: <BE0465EA.15028%tomonage2@gmx.de>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:14:34PM +0100, Jonathan Weiss wrote:
> Hi folks,
>=20
>=20
> I'm working on a port of foomatic-filters and I want to optionaly set up a
> symbolic link if CUPS-support is wanted (in order to register foomatic-rip
> as a filter for cups).
>=20
> How do I do this?
>=20
> I looked through the porters handbook and could not find something to
> symbolic links.
>=20
> I want to do something like this:
>=20
> #.if defined(WITH_CUPS)
> #ln -s /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip
> /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
> #.endif
>=20
> How do I remove this link later?
Put it in your plist if you create it. You could also use pkg-install
and deinstall scripts to create it if ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/cups/filter/
exists and destroy it if it exists when you uninstall. The nice thing
about that is that the package works without requiring that you depend
on CUPS.
-- Brooks
--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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