Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:47:06 -0700 (MST) From: chad@anasazi.com (Chad R. Larson) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: documentation suggestion Message-ID: <9703270747.AA09178@chad.anasazi.com> In-Reply-To: <755.859362576@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 25, 97 11:49:36 pm
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I just spent a couple of hours trying to put together my first "package"
under FreeBSD. I had come to the conclusion that the "@srcdir" pseudo
filename in the contents file was broken. I solved my riddle by reading
the source code to pkg_create. That's why we're all here, right?
Here's the contents file I was trying to use:
@name ediff-v2
@owner bin
@group bin
@srcdir /usr/local/src/ediff
@cwd /usr/local/bin
ediff
@cwd /usr/local/man/man1
ediff.1
You've probably already spotted the error. Here's the file that finally
worked:
@name ediff-v2
@owner bin
@group bin
@cwd /usr/local/bin
@srcdir /usr/local/src/ediff
ediff
@cwd /usr/local/man/man1
@srcdir /usr/local/src/ediff
ediff.1
Silly me. I took the word "override" in the man page literally. I
quote:
@srcdir directory
Sets the internal directory pointer for _creation only_ to directory.
That is to say that it overrides @cwd for package creation but
not extraction.
How about instead for the second sentence to read "Works just like @cwd
except it is ignored during extraction."
-crl
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