Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:45:45 -0300 From: "Renato Botelho" <rbgarga@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?=" <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: DESTDIR support committed to Mk/ Message-ID: <747dc8f30608041045r126a3e7cy738a8fd806eaf861@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44D370E9.1080209@FreeBSD.org> References: <44D370E9.1080209@FreeBSD.org>
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On 8/4/06, G=E1bor K=F6vesd=E1n <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I am pleased to announce, that portmgr committed my patch for ports > infrastructure DESTDIR support today. Note that this support is only for > the infrastructure, ports may or may not respect the DESTDIR macro, so > you should use this with care. Also note, that we only tested this > patchset without the DESTDIR macro set, but will do an another one with > DESTDIR set to something and check how many ports respect DESTDIR and > how many left to fix, but port maintainers can start checking their > ports and fixing them if necessary. Unfortunately, testing ports for > DESTDIR is pretty difficult, since we don't have support for this in > tinderbox. I used a chroot jail installed into an another chroot jail to > ensure I won't make my filesystem dirty. I chrooted into the first jail > and run make install for the given port with DESTDIR set to the another > chroot jail, checked if everything went fine and did make deinstall and > checked if everything is still good. I know it's a bit complicated, but > we don't have better yet. > > I've also written a Wiki page for DESTDIR with some guidelines what to > care about when writing DESTDIR-respective ports. > You can find it here: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/DESTDIR > > I also suggest to read the CHANGES entry, if you haven't done this yet: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/CHANGES?rev=3D1.57= &content-type=3Dtext/plain > > Documentation update for porters-handbook will also come soon. > > If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Great news. Congratulations and thanks for the great work! --=20 Renato Botelho
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