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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:48:06 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting
Message-ID:  <20050114214806.GG1175@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20050114213405.GA10065@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:34:05PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:12:06AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > Maybe we need two additional @ commands for pkg-plist:
> > 
> > - @dirrmifempty foo/bar
> >     does do what "@unexec rmdir %D/foo/bar 2>/dev/null || true" does.
> > 
> > - @rmifdifferent foo/bar foo/baz
> >     does do what "@unexec cmp %D/foo/bar %D/foo/baz && rm %D/foo/bar" does.
> > 
> > This way we
> > 
> > - have an easy and consistent syntax for a difficult command
> > 
> > - have less chance for errors (forgetting %D, && instead of ||)
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> Sounds interesting, but I'd change @rmifdifferent to something like
> @rmconfig since it's used by config files in most cases.

Question of course is, how do we upgrade pkg_delete. Looks like it
is part of sysutils/pkg_install. I'm going to think about it this
weekend and hopefully more people will give their comments on it.

Edwin
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