config file installation/removal

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 18 19:34:19 UTC 2021


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:51:36PM +0100, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:22:38 +0100
> Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think I finally found the trigger for this:
> It happens on systems where I had moved /usr/local/etc to /etc/local and
> put a link in /usr/local instead:
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     10 Aug 31  2018 etc@ -> /etc/local
> 
> Moving the directory back to /usr/local/etc makes pkg behave as before.
> 
> I've been using this for many years on many systems, but something in
> file handling must have changed in the pkg/ports recently causing this
> strange behaviour with sample files installation/removal.
> 
> Any ideas why this changed? Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> 
Hello,

Can you try with pkg 1.16.3 which has just been committed to the tree ?

Best regards,
Bapt
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