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.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: pre-install: @${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/xxx for the directories that I need. If there isn't a particular reason why this is excluded, I can go ahead a create a bug report/patch for this file. 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.
