Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:32:52 +0400 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: DESTDIR support committed to Mk/ Message-ID: <44D4C834.5080406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060805083217.GS33183@droso.net> References: <44D370E9.1080209@FreeBSD.org> <44D43D13.3090305@FreeBSD.org> <20060805083217.GS33183@droso.net>
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Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:39:15AM +0400, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: >> Gábor Kövesdán 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 >> Thanks for your work. It's highly appreciated. >> The feature was discussed for years but no real progress had been done. >> >> But a little number of ports will respect DESTDIR out of box. Some ports >> can be easily converted, for some ports it will be a hard work and a few >> ports will never be done. >> >> So, a question still arise: how could we warn user a port does not >> respect DESTDIR if he've defined it? >> >> E.g. we could use DESTDIR_READY=yes in a port Makefile if it's tested >> with DESTDIR. >> > I prefer to turn that logic around, but a run on pointyhat will have to > confirm how the number of working and non-working ports are. I am hoping > that most ports just DTRT, so we can mark the rest NO_DESTDIR or > similar. But yes, such a mechanism has to be worked on. I like the idea too, but really we should mark NO_DESTDIR almost all ports. I expect we have about 3% ports ready for DESTDIR without changes. But it's just guess-work however. -- Dixi. Sem.
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