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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:28:31 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Subject:   Re: Base packaging
Message-ID:  <1063880911.33631.150.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20030918122510.50ea84c3.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
References:  <200309171445.h8HEjrh6065898@grimreaper.grondar.org> <1063812422.33631.104.camel@localhost> <20030918122510.50ea84c3.Alexander@Leidinger.net>

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On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:25, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:27:03 +0100
> Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> wrote:
> 
> > > However, I suspect that a marginally better place to use these would be
> > > in the "make distribute" target that "make release" uses. This way, the
> > > files are already separated out into directory structures, and it may be
> > > easier to build complex pkg-plist's with find(1). ALSO, it may be easier
> > > to make more fine-grained packages (DISTRIBUTION=foo) with this.
> > 
> > I looked into this originally so that I could use the standard BSD make
> > includes for a project in work but I needed some way to have "install"
> > wrappered so that any files installed by my project were registered in a
> > package. Therefore, I wouldn't want it restricted to just FreeBSD
> > release scripts since I want to be able to use it outside of the FreeBSD
> > tree.
> 
> We have programs in the ports tree which use our bsd.*.mk
> infrastructure. Will there be a problem if such a program gets installed
> from ports (will it try to register itself 2 times)?

I don't know, have you got an example port I can look at?

Paul.



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