Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:43:12 -0800 (PST) From: david taylor <dtayl@rocketmail.com> To: FREEBSD-PORTS@FreeBSD.org Cc: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, smoberly@karamazov.org Subject: Re: Creating package in private area Message-ID: <20030130234312.59539.qmail@web41301.mail.yahoo.com>
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I believe my problem has been solved by changes that were
motivated by responses to my original post.
To enable install to and packaging from $DESTDIR, these
lines were added to the port Makefile:
MAKE_ARGS+= DESTDIR=${DESTDIR}
post-install:
echo "@srcdir ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}" | cat -
${TMPPLIST} > ${TMPPLIST}.new
mv ${TMPPLIST}.new ${TMPPLIST}
To allow compression of man pages in DESTDIR, these lines
were added after ".include <bsd.port.mk>":
.for sect in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
.if defined(MAN${sect})
_MANPAGES=
${MAN${sect}:S%^%${DESTDIR}${MAN${sect}PREFIX}/man/${lang}/man${sect}/%}
.endif
.endfor
The bsd.port.mk makefile still requires the install to be
run as root. Using 'sudo" helps, but then some files are
owned by root and some are not. If the build area is not on
a local disk, root will not be permitted to remove files it
does not own.
To allow non-root install and packaging, I skip the mtree
install and package registration, by adding these lines to
the port Makefile:
NO_MTREE= true
NO_PKG_REGISTER=true
install-mtree:
@${DO_NADA}
Frankly, I don't know if the mtree install and package
registration matters or if it compromises the package in
some way. It all seems to work fine for my packages, but
this is definitely not a general solution.
I would appreciate any comments/warnings on this approach.
Thanks for the helpful responses.
--- david taylor <dtayl@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Using release 4.5, is there a way to create a package in
> a
> private area that installs in /usr/local by default?
>
> When I do "make PREFIX=mydir install; make package" it
> fails, since there seems to be no way to specify "Look in
> mydir for the files to add to the package".
>
> When I do "make PREFIX=mydir install package" the package
>
> is created. But when I pkg_add that package, it installs
> in "mydir" (unless I specify "-p /usr/local").
>
> I really would like to create packages in a safe,
> private
> area (as can be done with Solaris, e.g.).
>
> thanks,
> dtayl
>
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