[57854] trunk/dports/www/phpmyadmin/Portfile

[Landon Fuller]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 13:43, Landon Fuller wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:36, alakazam at macports.org wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> If you need to create files (like config files) outside of the  
>>> destroot, you should do so in the post-activate phase, not in the  
>>> destroot phase.
>>
>> I believe the (documented? defacto?) standard is that example  
>> configuration files should be installed in destroot phase with  
>> a .sample extension.
>
> Uh, yes. Well the sample config file should be installed with a name  
> ending in e.g. ".sample" and this should be done in the destroot  
> phase and this file should be part of the destroot. But if you then  
> want to copy that sample config file to a real config file for the  
> user to modify, that should be done outside the destroot and outside  
> the destroot phase, after the port has been activated.

My only point was that the historically standard behavior was to  
install .sample files and not try to add configuration management  
logic to either the base system or every port that uses a  
configuration file.

If the new standard is to write custom per-port post-activate handlers  
to manually trigger ui_msg and install default configuration files,  
then perhaps it's worth revisiting the years-old decision to not add  
base system feature for handling configuration files.

*shrug*.

-landonf
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