substitutions in pkg-plist

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 1 12:24:23 PDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:23:14PM -0200, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:53:48 -0200
> Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez at wait4.org> wrote:
> 
> > This works, but it is not clear why %%whatever%% macros fail silently.
> 
> The point is not exactly "fail silently", but why the %D prefixing is
> explicitly necessary?

A single path alone on a line is a shorthand for %D/path. In case
of @exec, @unexec, @cwd and other commands there is no such
shorthand.


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