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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:45:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
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Subject: Re: ports/9422
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Mike Meyer wrote:

# Nope - I'm not setting it at all. Like I said, I don't deal with
# packages very often.
# 
# Having played with it, it looks like the command in the docs should
# be:
# 
# 	PKG_PATH=`pwd` pkg_add `make package-name`
# 
# for sh users, anyway. Either that, or a step needs to be added to copy
# the package file created by "make package" to the right place. Or
# maybe just clarifying this, so that when you get people who don't deal
# with packages submitting ports, it avoids the problem.

How about the attached patch for the handbook?

-steve

Index: porting.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /u/FreeBSD/cvs/doc/handbook/porting.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.120
diff -u -r1.120 porting.sgml
--- porting.sgml	1999/01/01 12:15:49	1.120
+++ porting.sgml	1999/01/11 01:43:13
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
 	  <item><tt>make install</tt>
 	  <item><tt>make package</tt>
 	  <item><tt>make deinstall</tt>
-	  <item><tt>pkg_add `make package-name`</tt>
+	  <item><tt>PKG_PATH=`pwd` pkg_add `make package-name`</tt>
 	  <item><tt>make deinstall</tt>
 	  <item><tt>make reinstall</tt>
 	  <item><tt>make package</tt>
@@ -191,7 +191,10 @@
 	  <tt/package/ and <tt/deinstall/ stages.  After step 3, check 
 	  to see if all the new directories are correctly deleted.
 	  Also, try using the software after step 4, to ensure that it 
-	  works correctly when installed from a package.
+	  works correctly when installed from a package.  Note if step
+	  4 fails complaining that it can't find the package then try
+	  setting <tt>PKG_PATH</tt> to <tt>/usr/ports/package/All</tt>.
+	  See the manpage for <tt>pkg_add(1)</tt> for more details.
 
       <sect2>
 	<heading>Checking your port with portlint<label id="porting:portlint"></heading>


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