Re: Unionfs etc Re: Packaging

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12.03.2004, at 02:51, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Another question: the FreeBSD porters' handbook requires you to create
> a directory tree first in your temporary install directory when
> building pkg-plist, and add any newly created directories to pkg-plist
> with a @dirrm -- is this really necessary?  It seems to me that we can
> just make pkg_delete (or its successor) remove any empty directories
> it finds after deleting files, including /usr/local/share or other
> "standard" places -- there's no reason to have these directories if
> there's nothing in them.

If we use /usr/dflypkg/* (or else) and map that to /usr/local (or 
else), a pkg_delete will just remove the dir in /usr/dflypkg. 
Furthermore, we got a MTREE file for /usr/local too.

cheers
  simon

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