Re: Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread Stephen Roznowski
Le mar. 27 déc. 22 à 22:29:02 +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder écrivait : ## Stephen Roznowski (sjrb...@verizon.net): I'm in the process of creating a new port that requires the installation of some files in /var. There already exist many examples: check $ find /usr/ports/games -name pkg-pli

Re: Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le mar. 27 déc. 22 à 22:29:02 +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder écrivait : > ## Stephen Roznowski (sjrb...@verizon.net): > > > I'm in the process of creating a new port that requires the installation > > of some files in /var. There already exist many examples: check $ find /usr/ports/games -nam

Re: Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread Christoph Moench-Tegeder
## Stephen Roznowski (sjrb...@verizon.net): > I'm in the process of creating a new port that requires the installation > of some files in /var. When something is surprisingly hard, you should stop and think if you're holding it wrong. So, why /var? Could it make sense to use /usr/local/var/ (${PR

Re: Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread Stephen Roznowski
On 12/27/22 14:12, jaap.akkerh...@xs4all.nl wrote: > > >> On 27 Dec 2022, at 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

Re: Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread jaap . akkerhuis
> On 27 Dec 2022, at 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 wh

Re: Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread Ronald Klop
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 c

Staging and /var

2022-12-27 Thread Stephen Roznowski
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 b