How to handle config files

[Doug Barton]

On 01/08/2012 04:59, Martin Kropfinger wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> The porters handbook describes a way to handle config files:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/plist-config.html
> 
> It is recommended to do it this way for keeping changed files after
> deinstallation on the system. But the example is not really clear to me.
> 
> What does this line do:
> @exec if [ ! -f %D/etc/orbit.conf ] ; then cp -p %D/%F %B/orbit.conf; fi
> 
> Nothing is said about those variables... %D (which seems to be
> %%PREFIX%%) and %F or %B.
> 
> Can anyone give me some help?

I added a reference to pkg_create in that section, and tried to improve
the wording a bit to make it more clear what the right course of action
is. It should be on line in a few hours (assuming I didn't break the doc
build again) .... please let me know if it helps you understand things
better.


Doug

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