Re: Staging and /var

From: Stephen Roznowski <sjrbulk_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:12:58 UTC
 
On 12/27/22 14:12, jaap.akkerhuis@xs4all.nl wrote:
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>> On 27 Dec 2022, at 18:54, Stephen Roznowski <sjrbulk@verizon.net> wrote:
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>> I'm in the process of creating a new port that requires the installation of some files in /var.
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>> I notice that the file /usr/ports/Templates/BSD.local.dist doesn't have any of the /var tree in it, is there a particular reason why that is missing? (I could see where a small subset of /var would be useful to autocreate in the stage directory.)
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>> I realize that I can just do:
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>>     pre-install:
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>>         @${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/xxx
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>> for the directories that I need. 
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> You really want to use pkg-plist for this.
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>     jaap
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pkg-plist (or PLIST_FILES) doesn't work for staging (without the pre-install line).
For additional details, I'm porting a game, so my plist has "var/games/xxx.score" in it.
Thanks,Steve