Re: Problem building fail2ban with PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/etc

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jarle Greipsland <jarle.greipsland%norid.no@localhost> writes:

> PKG_DBDIR=              /usr/pkg/libdata/pkgdb
> LOCALBASE=              /usr/pkg
> VARBASE=                /var
> PKG_SYSCONFBASE=        /etc
> PKG_TOOLS_BIN=          /usr/pkg/sbin
> PKGINFODIR=             info
> PKGMANDIR=              man

> ===> Installing for fail2ban-1.0.2nb2
> => Generating pre-install file lists
> => Creating installation directories
> ERROR: INSTALLATION_DIRS: /etc/fail2ban must be in /usr/pkg.
> *** Error code 1

Using egrep -R on pkgsrc/mk, I found that INSTALLATION_DIRS requires
that directories are within prefix, in the code.   This is documented at
the beginning

  # INSTALLATION_DIRS
  #       A list of directories that should be created at the very
  #       beginning of the install phase. These directories MUST either
  #       be paths that contain a leading {PREFIX}/ or be relative
  #       paths. As a convenience, a leading gnu/ is transformed to
  #       ${PKGGNUDIR} and a leading man/ is transformed to ${PKGMANDIR},
  #       to save package authors from typing too much.

and therefore it is a package bug to put PKGSYSCONFDIR in
INSTALLATION_DIRS.


I wonder why you have chose PKG_SYSCONFBASE to be /etc.  I leave it at
LOCALBASE/etc.