ports/75348: Tomcat port overwrites server.xml config file

[Manfred Riem]

Why not use server.xml.sample for the original version?
That way one never has to worry ;) And it is the same
scheme as with rc scripts.

Kind regards,
Manfred N. Riem
mnriem at gmail.com

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:43:40 -0500, Brent Verner <brent at rcfile.org> wrote:
> All,
> 
>  Would it help to create a script like the attached (I'd
> call it install-port-conf or install-conf)?  What this would
> do (should you remove the echo from the cp lines...) is
> check for the currently installed package from ${PKGORIGIN}
> and check to see if the file to be installed has been modified
> from the original distributed file.  If the user has modified
> it, then we'll leave it alone and create the new file as
> ${FILE}.new.  If the user hasn't modified it, copy the old
> file to ${FILE}.old and install the new ${FILE}
> 
>  From the makefile it might be used as follows:
> 
> INSTALL_CONF=/path/to/install-conf   # probably shipped in port files
> # ...
> do-install:
>        ${INSTALL_CONF} ${PKGORIGIN} ${WRKDIR}/server.xml ${APP_HOME}/conf/server.xml
>        ${INSTALL_CONF} ${PKGORIGIN} ${WRKSRC}/web.xml ${APP_HOME}/conf/web.xml
> 
>  Of course, the attached script would need to be completed.  The only
> thing it does reliably is tell you if a previously installed version
> of a file to be installed was modified by the user.
> 
>  Comments?
> 
>  brent
> 
> 
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