Re: symlinks in PKG_SYSCONFDIR

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Roy Marples wrote:
> I'm trying to write a pkgsrc Makefile for a package that installs symlinks 
> into PKG_SYSCONFDIR. How should this be handled?

Could you please describe the package a bit and how it uses these symlinks?

If you're making changes to ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}, you should do it by 
creating a custom INSTALL script to create the symlinks at POST-INSTALL 
time and a corresponding DEINSTALL script to remove the symlinks at 
DEINSTALL time.  We don't currently have a general facility to manage 
symlinks like we do for config files because other packages haven't 
needed it.

        Cheers,

        -- Johnny C. Lam