How to handle config files

[Julien Laffaye]

On 1/8/2012 1:59 PM, 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.
Have a look at pkg_create(1) manpage ;)
> Can anyone give me some help?
>
> Thanx a lot!