Anders F Björklund <afb@macports.org> writes:
"If a port installs a foo.cf.sample it might want to copy foo.cf.sample to foo.cf iff foo.cf doesn't exist. This is probably common enough that the port author shouldn't be forced to write an on-install foo.cf.sample [ ! -f foo.cf ] && cp foo.cf.sample foo.cf"
I don't understand what functionality requested by Brian cannot be met by MacPorts 1.5.2 as it is today.
It's an enhancement alright, but I think that it would fit in great with the need of packages to signify which files are configuration ? In essence doing "port install/uninstall" and binary archives/packages have different needs, but I think it would be great to have features for both of them. And I do prefer simply listing the conffiles, rather than having to write any such install/uninstall scripts manually.
I think having 'dodoc' and 'dobin' macros or some such like Gentoo would be very nice. I'm not sure what I 'doconf' would do but it could be useful. Mark