[Fink-devel] vsftpd

[Walter M S. <Walter.Szeliga@Colorado.EDU>]

Dear Fink-Developers,
	I was recently in need of vsftpd on my Mac and after hacking (using  
some of the DarwinPorts patches) together an installation I figured  
I'd wrap it up for everyone else.  Vsftpd is strange (what package  
isn't) and needs its hand held.  Specifically, It needs things like an  
empty directory: /sw/var/empty.  If I use:

InstallScript: <<
  install -d %p/var/empty
  ...
<<

a `fink install vsftpd` works fine, but `fink -m --build-as-nobody  
vsftpd` does not work since `nobody` does not have permission to  
`install -d %p/var/empty`.  I looked a packages I assumed would be  
similar like apache, but it looks like they just use `mkdir -p ...`  
which fails if the directory already existed.

On a standards related front, the daemon vsftpd is usually install in / 
usr/local/sbin or similar.  Should it then be installed in %p/sbin or  
%p/bin?  What about files that typically would go in /etc like  
vsftpd.conf?  Should I put them in %p/etc?

Currently the package installs the daemon in %p/bin and the  
configuration files in %p/etc/vsftpd and the program compiles,  
installs and runs fine on machines I have at my disposal, I'd just  
like to make sure I'm following "best practices" before I submit it.

Thanks,
Walter Szeliga