how to tell pkg-list not to deinstall/overwrite certain files

[Aryeh Friedman]

Forgot to mention the solution should if at all possible be 100% pkg-plist
based because our internal build system is not make


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am doing a lot of inter-machine testing of a private port (will be
> released soon as a actual port) but need to tell "make deinstall" not to
> delete a certain file... how do we do this?... background one thing we are
> testing is the ability to upgrade the port (privately) and it must not nuke
> our settings file on the test machines because the default config provided
> by our port is inappropriate for how we have things configured (it is
> correct for 99.9% of everyone else though).
>
> Namely we need:
>
> 1. Do not delete  /usr/local/etc/petitecloud/settings on deinstall
> 2. Do not overwrite it with a new version on install (if present else
> install it)
>