ports/101299: New port: www/pivot-weblog A blog authoring tool written in PHP

[Tilman Linneweh]

On Aug 6, 2006, at 21:06, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The pkg-plist is incorrect, there are several files missing on
>>>> deinstallation,
>>>> please check.
>>> [cut]
>>>
>>> These files must *not* be deleted when deinstalling, since they
>>> need to be kept when upgrading/reinstalling Pivot. If they are not
>>> kept, an upgrade will remove all user settings and all
>>> articles/entries in  Pivot.
>>>
>>> As you notice when deinstalling (look at the Makefile), there is a
>>> warning that you manually have to delete (the left-overs) in
>>> /usr/local/www/weblog/
>>
>> Well some of the missing files are empty directories, so i doubt they
>> are user settings ;-)
>
> The empty directories are the folders where Pivot stores upload images
> and generated archives. These needs to be created up front (with the
> correct permissions) because (currently) Pivot is *not* intelligent  
> enough to
> create these directories on the fly.

Yes, but they should be removed on deinstallation. The port should at  
least
use  @dirrmtry

>
>> The problem is, that the programm should work if you just do pkg_add
>> pivot.  The files which are not in pkg-plist are not in the package,
>> so the  package is unusable.
>
> 1) I did follow
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ 
> porting-testing.html
> and "pkg_add pivot-weblog" does work. Did you even test? *I* did...

Then the files are actually not necessary, and the port should not  
install them at all.

> 2) I didn't use the unexec/exec trick for pkg-plist because I also
> need to set the permissions correctly.

You can set permissions too by @exec 'uting chown/chmod.

> 3) Did you look at files/pkg-install.in It is run when using pkg_add
> according to my testing and the handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ 
> pkg-install.html
> And as I said, in 2 above, I need to do it this way because then I can
> set the permissions correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Hans Nordhaug
>
> PS! I'm a Pivot developer http://pivotlog.net/docs/doku.php?id=credits

Pivot looks great, if i have to switch my Blogsoftware, Pivot is a  
candidate :-).

regards
tilman