From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Aug 23 14:31:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from Daffy.timing.com (daffy.timing.com [206.168.13.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4847837B40D; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: from brain.timing.com (brain.timing.com [206.168.13.195]) by Daffy.timing.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16637; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:31:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: (from jhein@localhost) by brain.timing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7NLVH517731; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:31:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jhein@brain.timing.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15237.30244.936932.928537@brain.timing.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:31:16 -0600 From: John E Hein To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20601: DESTDIR and /etc/shells In-Reply-To: <20010823133038.A99713@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200108231510.f7NFA2A96921@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010823172108.B2573@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010823133038.A99713@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote at 13:30 -0700 on Aug 23: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:21:09PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > It's pretty obvious that a large number of ports will not support > > DESTDIR immediately after the change. However, I do believe it's > > something we must have. If I do some testing locally, can we move > > forward with this a week after 4.4-RELEASE is out the door? > > It's pretty hard for us to move forward with any nontrivial changes > without the ability to test them in a package build. This is a major > outstanding problem..perhaps we can just take over bento for a week or > two and get some of the backlog sorted out. I'm curious... does the package building process for releases define DESTDIR to something other than "" or /? If not, then the patch in 28155 should be completely trivial. However, it certainly LOOKS complicated enough to be non-trivial. And I completely understand the concerns people have with the wide-ranging effects of changing bsd.port.mk and the care that should be taken before doing this. Being the author of the patch, I just though I'd attempt to throw in a little reassurance that IF DESTDIR is currently not being used to build packages for the release, this patch should be a no-op. Of course, if DESTDIR IS currently being used to build packages for the release CDs, then many packages are probably broken anyway in at least some minor ways (as in the example in ports/28155). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message