Re: Staging and /var
- In reply to: Stephen Roznowski : "Staging and /var"
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:59:49 UTC
On 12/27/22 18:54, Stephen Roznowski wrote:
> I'm in the process of creating a new port that requires the installation of some files in /var.
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> 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.)
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> I realize that I can just do:
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> pre-install:
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> @${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/xxx
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> for the directories that I need.
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> If there isn't a particular reason why this is excluded, I can go ahead a create a bug report/patch for this file.
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> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
AFAIK... Ports mostly create the /var/xxx dir in the rc startup script. Because on diskless systems /var might be a tmpfs which is empty after every (re)boot.
I remember a thread about ports providing a mtree specification to standardize this process in a central place. I don't know the status of this.
A quick search gave me this part of the thread: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2022-August/002519.html
Anyway, I am not authoritative on this subject, so let's see what others say about it.
Regards,
Ronald.