Subject: how to handle dynamic config-file generation?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/07/2005 13:46:42
I'm creating a package for a program which wants to auto-generate its
config file after "make install". It first checks whether the config file
(in ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}) exists, and if not, generates a quite generic (not
at all host-specific) example config file. How should I handle this in
pkgsrc?
Should I let this package create files in ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}, or not? This
will of course not work with pkg_add. Maybe I could pre-generate the file
and put in in files/ (since it's really generic), and have the package
install that in share/examples/*.
What do you think?
GH