From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 17 3:37:48 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (curie.sunesi.com [196.25.112.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33C1537B40F for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 26331 invoked by uid 0); 17 Aug 2001 10:39:36 -0000 Received: from choke.sunesi.net (HELO gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) (196.25.112.242) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 10:39:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 18146 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Aug 2001 10:38:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:38:00 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts/mkptools mkppackage mkpbuild mkpinstall Message-ID: <20010817123800.A6396@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200108170941.f7H9fIY97326@freefall.freebsd.org> <17709.998042781@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010817033021.A7431@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010817033021.A7431@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:30:21AM -0700 Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2001-08-17 (03:30), Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Add mkppackage, which will create a "fake"-style package, but not > > > really. It doesn't try fake PREFIX and such to the build (it's not > > > really possible anyway yet), but it uses pkg_create's '-s' option to > > > pretend the package generated was installed in ${PREFIX}. > > > > Useful for, amongst other things, providing binary patch packages, yes? > > I'm not immediately sure how..I haven't needed anything like this for > the binary patch packages I've made so far. Well, that's because you're either installing it directly where it will live (ie, live on the filesystem), or are already using pkg_create's '-s' option, either manually, or via pkg_tarup or via EXTRA_PKG_ARGS. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message