Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:45:17 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/9422 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9901101943450.18505-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901101651331.9536-100000@guru.phone.net>
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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.
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