From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 11:57:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D523716A543; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388BE43D6B; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:56:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2401F1A4E0A; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E5F551305; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:56:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:56:57 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Florent Thoumie Message-ID: <20060821115657.GA1425@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200601161951.k0GJpfNx017833@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060821080945.A48690@p-i-n.com> <20060821110753.GA99959@xor.obsecurity.org> <1156159640.53353.29.camel@mayday.esat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1156159640.53353.29.camel@mayday.esat.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Raphael H. Becker" , cvs-all@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: PKGDIR ambiguous (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info info.h main.c perform.c pkg_info.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add add.h main.c perform.c pkg_add.1 src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib lib.h url.c) X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:57:10 -0000 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 07:07 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:09:45AM +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote: > > >=20 > > > Hi Florent, > > >=20 > > > PKGDIR is ambiguous in the context of ports and packages. > > >=20 > > > I set PKGDIR=3D/some/where/my/pkg in my /etc/profile which causes the > > > ports to fail badly creating any packages: > > >=20 > > > It is used in ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk: > > > # PKGDIR - A directory containing any package creation > > > # files. > > > # Default: ${MASTERDIR} > > > [...] > > > PKGDIR?=3D ${MASTERDIR} > > >=20 > > > Havin set PKGDIR statically is a very bad idea here. > >=20 > > Yes, PKGDIR is incorrect in this usage. The documented place where > > packages are stored is: > >=20 > > # PACKAGES - A top level directory where all packages go (= rather than > > # going locally to each port). > > # Default: ${PORTSDIR}/packages > > # >=20 > PACKAGES is a better choice than PKGDIR, but I'd like to avoid confusion > between "cached" packages (as in, copies of downloaded packages), and > "home-brewed" packages.=20 Not sure there is a need to; they're both just packages. > That's why I was proposing PKG_CACHEDIR. >=20 > Moreover, I think there's no easy way to find the category of a package > before it is downloaded. You don't need to, you can download it to All/, and then postprocess. Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE6Z+JWry0BWjoQKURApNCAJoDQu67kGt57Yi4A0W+48NInRzeygCg+hwa BrLvEc5L58Bk03qs5fSKkFM= =uLnG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--