Handling non-standard directories in tinybsd

Jean Milanez Melo jmelo at freebsdbrasil.com.br
Mon Oct 30 14:32:51 UTC 2006


Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Jean,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:32:07PM -0200, Jean Milanez Melo wrote:
>> Your patch was good, but i've made some changes.
>>
>> Here the patch. Take a look and tell me what do you think, if it's ok 
>> for you i'll ask Julian to commit.
> 
> Thank you for looking at it.  I think this is a good idea to use
> BSD.local.dist, and we should certainly keep it.  However, some
> ports create their own subdirectory in ${LOCALBASE}.  While those
> may be converging toward a more standard hierarchy (I'm not sure
> about the ports policy on this particular point), so we might want
> to check if the directory exists.  I won't argue hard for this,
> but it might be worth thinking about it.
> 
> Otherwise, I am ok with this patch.
> 
> Thank you.
> Regards,

Jeremie,

I think in this way it will be better. I'll do a patch to check 
application directory with config files. BTW, thanks for your work.

Julian, could you commit this patch?

Thanks.
Jean


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