Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 08:58:29 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>, bapt@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is staging a port really this simple? Message-ID: <53819495.9010906@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <538179d9.ERL3ZKEnk4pQKKib%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <524CE820.5060003@missouri.edu> <20131003061511.GF85314@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <538179d9.ERL3ZKEnk4pQKKib%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 5/25/2014 07:04, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> Some months ago, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> ... if you need any help staging your ports I can provide reviews.
>
> I have a couple of ports that need staging support added, and I've
> finally managed to find time to look into it. Having read such
> documentation as I could easily find using Google, and looked at
> the ports, I am feeling as if I must have overlooked something
> -- because the only changes that seem to be needed are to insert
> ${STAGEDIR} into a few lines in the Makefiles.
>
> Granted these are not complex ports, but if it really is this easy
> I have to wonder what all the uproar has been about :)
>
> What-all have I missed?
>
You didn't miss much -- except adding the man page to the pkg-plist and
removing the MAN* definitions from the makefile.
When the "install" target is defined, staging is normally pretty simple
to do.
John
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