Writing a port that simply installs a bunch of files

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Mon Mar 6 16:51:36 UTC 2017


On 03/06/17 16:22, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On 6 March 2017 at 16:02, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
>
>> The first problem I encounter, then, is with subdirectories.
>> [...]
>
> Is it possible that you are looking for this:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/install.html

Yes and no.

AFAICT this only gets half of what I'd like to achieve:
_ it can in fact allow me to specify files permissions;
_ however, I'll need to specify them manually in pkg-plist; since the 
permissions are already right in the tarball, I'd happily avoid this 
duplication.

  bye & Thanks
	av.


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