We need new feature for pkg_create?

[Anton Berezin]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:31:01PM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
> 
> > 	I'm net/quagga port maintainer. My port is installing some scripts 
> > 	to /etc/rc.d. I know, this is bad, but I really need rcorder to be applied 
> > to my scripts. So, to install scripts, I use next trick:
> > 
> > @cwd %%RC_DIR%%
> > quagga%%RC_SUFX%%
> > watchquagga%%RC_SUFX%%
> > @cwd %%CWD_TRICK%%
> > 
> > where %%RC_DR%% is set to /etc/rc.d and %%CWD_TRICK%% is set to 
> > ${PREFIX}. In most cases this works well, but not in case when pkg_add 
> > is used with -p option. So, the question is - may be we really need new 
> > feature for pkg_create like @pushwd and @popwd? So, the trick will look like
> 
> Would not it just be easier to re-arrange the original plist to be:
> 
> @cwd %%CWD_TRICK%%
> .....
> @cwd %%RC_DIR%%
> quagga%%RC_SUFX%%
> watchquagga%%RC_SUFX%%
> 
> This should work fine, if me reading of pkg_* code is correct.  the
> disadvantage is, of course, using a feature (-p = replace only the
> _first_ @cwd), which is not documented.

I stand corrected, this _is_ documented.  :-)

\Anton.
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