Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:54:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage1 Makefile Message-ID: <20041231215411.GB14893@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041231142144.G12851@blues.jpj.net> References: <200412302001.iBUK10iV036621@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041231003212.GA23359@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041231142144.G12851@blues.jpj.net>
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:52:40PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:01:00PM +0000, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > > trevor 2004-12-30 20:01:00 UTC
> > >
> > > FreeBSD ports repository
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage1 Makefile
> > > Log:
> > > Rename pre-install target to do-extract, so packing list will be
> > > available after "make all".
> > >
> > > Submitted by: obrien
> > Missed in my patch was not doing:
> >
> > do-extct:
> > ..snip..
> > + @${RM} -fr ${WRKSRC}
> >
> > Please don't do that -- rm'ing of ${WRKSRC} is for 'make clean'.
>
> It wasn't missed, but intentional. Those files are not precious--they
> weren't compiled (by the port), just untarred. Unlike most ports, this
> port doesn't do anything with them except make the packing list. In my
> judgment, it's better to remove them afterward, so someone who simply does
> "make install" will need half as much disk space.
?? That is true of 100 other ports -- they extract binary files. And
what about the 10,000 ports -- boy do they use a lot of disk space after
'make install' and before 'make clean'. What should we do about them??
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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