Re: symlinks in PKG_SYSCONFDIR

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:52:37PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 16:03 Uhr -0500 25.3.2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> >> I'm trying to write a pkgsrc Makefile for a package that installs symlinks
> >> into PKG_SYSCONFDIR. How should this be handled?
> >
> >Tell us a little more. Is this installed at installation time? Or later
> >when the software runs?
> >
> >I don't know of any examples of that in pkgsrc.
> 
> wip/tsm installs a symlink to an i18n directory in 'post-install'; the
> PLIST has an @unexec for it.

That only works if the symlink is included in the PLIST, otherwise
binary package installation will differ from source builds.

Joerg