Re: New version of the fakeroot patch

[Matthew Seaman]

Julien Laffaye wrote:

It will also ensure the quality of the _packages_. For example, if the
port create an empty folder, it's common that the package forget to
create it.

Uh -- is it actually possible to create an empty directory when installing from
a pkg tarball?

I ran into this problem with the phpMyAdmin port, and the only good way I found

trivial operation.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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to solve it was to add a stub file into any empty directories. You could use a post install script or an mtree file, but that seems like overkill for such a

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