From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 22:24:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B40DA931 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 22:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from astart2.astart.com (108-248-95-193.lightspeed.sndgca.sbcglobal.net [108.248.95.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AD8C27DA for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 22:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop_84.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by astart2.astart.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4LLwqj4054555 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papowell@astart.com) Message-ID: <537D2188.7060508@astart.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:32 -0700 From: Patrick Powell Reply-To: papowell@astart.com Organization: Astart Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130714 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Done with this port References: <13C1124873A73216958EF496@localhost> <537BA4B0.80400@FreeBSD.org> <75E908F4C5C8BF9E3CEC47D8@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <537C355E.5090507@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <537C355E.5090507@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:24:50 -0000 On 05/20/14 22:10, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 21.05.2014 03:49, schrieb Paul Schmehl: > >> Thanks. With some of my ports I have been really struggling trying to >> get staging working. I'd be very interested to see what you did, since >> it was apparently easy for you to do. > A bit of experience with packaging helped indeed. > > The differences are visible in this automated message: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2014-May/058212.html > > The INSTALL_TARGET that sets the INSTALL_ROOT (supported by iwidget's > Makefile) is useful, and more help (for the MANN conversion) is > available on the FreeBSD Wiki: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir/ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Mathias, I think that brief description of how you did this would be VERY useful to some of us looking at this problem and not knowing where to start. Perhaps an: 'this is the way it was' and a 'this is the way it should be' document would be good. Or even a list of links to 'helpful hints' documents. Thanks! I really appreciate your efforts on the ports and packages