On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:49:26AM -0700, Jordan Brown (Sun) wrote:

> Concur.  (Though this means that most packages would need to depend on at 
> least one other, to pull in the directories they install into.)

Our idea -- though we need to discuss this with Casper (as architect of the
last round of changing all the directory permissions) -- was to create
directories missing from the imageplan with a standard set of permissions.
Possibly those are hard-coded, or maybe they inherit from the lowest
existing parent directory (so then you'd only have to deliver directories
whose perms differ from their parents).  And yeah, we'll have to have a
core package that delivers all the basics at the top level, but we need
that for other reasons, anyway.

>  (Yes, there's the "?" mechanism but our current policies and practices 
> discourage its use.)

And for good reason -- there's no policy to tell pkgadd how to create those
directories if they're not already there.

Danek
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