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From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru>
To: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: Good examples of not deleting custom config files/installing
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* Freddie Cash (fcash@ocis.net) wrote:
> Could someone point me to some ports that do a good job of not
> deleting custom config files when you do updates?  I'd like to
Look at, for example, mail/mutt. Many ports handle configs in the
same way. The trick is done by @exec and @unexec directives in
pkg-plist, they are pretty self-explainable. This also works perfectly
when installing from package.

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