ok thanks, I did not know pkg-install.
On 11/21/2014 11:39 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Moritz Warning <moritzwarn...@web.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I try to write a port of an application that needs to edit
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>> But I have trouble modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf in pkg-plist (there is where
>> it should be done?).
>> Even creating a test file in pkg-plist seem be ignored:
>>
>> /etc/testfile
>> @exec echo 'test' >> /etc/testfile
>>
>> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>>
> You probably don't want to do this in the pkg-plist, instead you would
> normally do this in pkg-install:
>
>
> pkg-install
> #!/bin/sh
>
> PKG_BATCH=${BATCH:=NO}
> PKG_PREFIX=${PKG_PREFIX:=/usr/local}
>
> case $2 in
> POST-INSTALL)
> if [ "${PKG_BATCH}" = "NO" ]; then
> # Do something to add an
> entry to /etc/nsswitch.conf
> else
> # Display a message
> echo "*** We do not modify
> /etc/nsswitch.conf automatically in"
> echo "*** BATCH mode. Please
> modify it yourself."
> fi
> ;;
> POST-DEINSTALL)
> # Do something to remove the
> entry that was added to /etc/nsswitch.conf
> ;;
> esac
>
> It might be better to add a pkg-message to the port that shows how to
> modify /etc/nsswitch.conf, instead of having the port modify it.
> 
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