Remembering tweaks for ports?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 03:15:40PM -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> 
> Forgive me if this has been asked before.  Is there any way to not have to 
> re-customize ports whenever you do an upgrade?  One that is particularly 
> annoying to me is the interaction between amavisd-new and clamav.  When 
> clamav is installed (even via portupgrade), it sets ownership (uid and gid) 
> of various directories to clamav:clamav.  Unfortunately, amavisd-new wants 
> vscan:vscan.  I found this out the hard way when I did the initial install, 
> but every time clamav port is upgraded, I have to go tweak the same 
> directories.  Am I missing something here?

Yes.  If you look at the security/clamav port Makefile you'll see
within it:

     CLAMAVUSER?=    clamav
     CLAMAVGROUP?=   clamav

 where the '?=' assignment operator allows you to override that
 assignment, usually from the command line.  So you can do:

     # cd /usr/ports/security/clamav
     # make CLAMAVUSER=vscan CLAMAVGROUP=vscan

 "But" I hear you say "that's almost as onerous as having to run
 chown(1) on the various files anyway."  However, you are using
 portupgrade(1).  Look at the configuration file
 /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.cfg -- specifically, look at the 'MAKE_ARGS'
 array.  If you edit the config file to add:

     'security/clamav' => [ 'CLAMAVUSER=vscan', 'CLAMAVGROUP=vscan', ],

 to that array and then use portupgrade religiously for doing all of
 your port maintenance, then it will be installed with vscan:vscan
 ownership automatically.

	 Cheers,

	 Matthew

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