On 2022/06/06 18:46, Aisha Tammy wrote: > > > On 6/6/22 18:30, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > creating /var/www/var/www in PLIST is not ideal, some people already have > > a symlink from /var/www/var -> .. to cope with similar situations in locally
Oops actually I meant /var/www/var/www -> .. (This is my #1 method for making PHP stuff easier to work with where it needs to access files both inside and outside the chroot if I'm just doing a local checkout rather than installing it from packages where it can be patched). > > installed software, and IIRC if you include that as a directory in PLIST it > > may replace the existing symlink > Oof, yes you're right. > > perhaps better to patch the scripts that are run from httpd to strip the > > /var/www prefix if necessary (but a user might of course be running without > > chroot anyway) > Monica scripts are complex, and I don't fancy myself as a PHP developer > enough to change them. > > What about if it's added to the README ? That makes sense to me. > I can also try to flesh it out a bit more by including bits from > https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/main/docs/installation/providers/generic.md Generally I would recommend not copying bits from upstream docs, just refer to them and point out anything that needs doing differently. Otherwise it is easy to forget about what pkg/README says about installs when you're already running the software and do an update. Happened with probably every port where I tried to do it before I learned to avoid it :)
