Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:56:57 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Raphael H. Becker" <rabe@p-i-n.com>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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) Message-ID: <20060821115657.GA1425@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1156159640.53353.29.camel@mayday.esat.net> References: <200601161951.k0GJpfNx017833@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060821080945.A48690@p-i-n.com> <20060821110753.GA99959@xor.obsecurity.org> <1156159640.53353.29.camel@mayday.esat.net>
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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
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