Attachment 123242 Details for Bug 166541 – configfiles-clarification.patch

[patch] configfiles-clarification.patch

configfiles-clarification.patch (text/plain), 1.51 KB, created by Rachel Flynn on 2012-03-31 21:10:10 UTC

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Created: 2012-03-31 21:10:10 UTC

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>Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.1173
>diff -u -r1.1173 book.sgml
>--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml	22 Mar 2012 04:09:20 -0000	1.1173
>+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml	31 Mar 2012 19:49:36 -0000
>@@ -9378,14 +9378,19 @@
> 		${CP} -p ${PREFIX}/etc/orbit.conf.sample ${PREFIX}/etc/orbit.conf ; \
> 	fi</programlisting>
> 
>-      <para>Example of the <filename>pkg-plist</filename> part:</para>
>+      <para>For each configuration file create the following tuple in
>+      <filename>pkg-plist</filename>:</para>
> 
>       <programlisting>@unexec if cmp -s %D/etc/orbit.conf.sample %D/etc/orbit.conf; then rm -f %D/etc/orbit.conf; fi
> etc/orbit.conf.sample
> @exec if [ ! -f %D/etc/orbit.conf ] ; then cp -p %D/%F %B/orbit.conf; fi</programlisting>
> 
>-      <para>For information on the above variables see
>-	&man.pkg.create.1;</para>
>+      <para>The ordering is important, since the sample file still has
>+      to exist in order to be compared upon deinstallation. Upon
>+      installation, the sample file has to be extracted before it can be
>+      copied. To debug any issues, temporarily remove the -s flag to
>+      &man.cmp.1;. For information on the above variables see
>+      &man.pkg.create.1;</para>
> 
>       <para>If there is a very good reason not to install a working
> 	configuration file by default, use a <link

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