FreeBSD Port: squidGuard-1.4

[Rick Chisholm]

Guido Falsi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:09:25PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>   
>> Guido Falsi wrote:
>>  > Since ports are expected not to leave files behind when deinstalled,
>>     
>>> port logic checks on first install if ${DATADIR} exists. If it does it
>>> will NOT be created/populated and NOT included in the plist, and not
>>> removed on deinstall.
>>>
>>> On the contrary if it does not find such directory it will create,
>>> populate it remove it on deinstall.
>>>       
>> The way that this is traditionally handled is for the port to install
>> both file and file.sample, but only list file.sample in the plist.
>> Then at deinstall time there should be a script to compare file to
>> file.sample and remove file if it is the same. Repeat for values of
>> $file as needed.
>>
>> It is not expected or desirable for a port to remove user-modified
>> files (including those files created by a daemon).
>>     
>
> I agree. I was thinking if it could be acceptable to add an option to
> the port for installing/not installing the sample blacklists and not
> adding those to the plist anyway. This could be easier to handle.
> Perhaps also more logical.
>
> With this change a note on deinstall to check and remove by hand the
> folder should also be added, obviously.
>
>   
That might make more sense, esp. if a user has created numerous large 
dbs rather than downloading them from a 3rd party.  It wasn't disastrous 
for me since I upgraded a test server first, but it would be preferable 
if the upgrade didn't touch the db dir or squidGuard.conf.

thanks guys,

Rick