How to reference /var/foo in pkg-plist?

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >   @exec mkdir -pm 770 /var/spool/bsmtp; chown uucp:uucp /var/spool/bsmtp
> > >   @dirrmtry /var/spool/bsmtp
> > >
> > The correct way to handle this is to have the port create
> > ${STAGEDIR}/var/spool/bsmtp.  This could be created in the
> > post-install target or in the ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
> 
> Okay, but how do I package this directory then?  What entry would
> I put in pkg-plist?
> 
> Hmm, actually, this
> 
>   @owner uucp
>   @group uucp
>   @mode 770
>   @dirrmtry /var/spool/bsmtp
>   @mode
>   @group
>   @owner
> 
> produces the desired entry in the package's tar archive
> 
> drwxrwx---  0 uucp   uucp        0 Nov  1 23:07 /var/spool/bsmtp/
> 
> However, I'm not sure if I'm using this as intended or if it just
> happens to work out.

Try something like this in pkg-plist:

@unexec rm -d /var/foo 2>/dev/null || true
@exec install -d -o uucp -g uucp -m 0770 /var/foo

The directory is created on installation and removed (if empty) on
deletion, but is not actually part of the package archive.