Re: Staging and /var
- In reply to: Stephen Roznowski : "Staging and /var"
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:12:53 UTC
> On 27 Dec 2022, at 18:54, Stephen Roznowski <sjrbulk@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of creating a new port that requires the installation of some files in /var.
>
> I notice that the file /usr/ports/Templates/BSD.local.dist doesn't have any of the /var tree in it, is there a particular reason why that is missing? (I could see where a small subset of /var would be useful to autocreate in the stage directory.)
>
> I realize that I can just do:
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> pre-install:
>
> @${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/xxx
>
> for the directories that I need.
You really want to use pkg-plist for this.
jaap