From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 03:26:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C7616A4B3; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 03:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0525F43FCB; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 03:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd09.aul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19zvyZ-0000DN-07; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:25:27 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (S34so6ZCgeSqMqCsm4AN+hlSnWkfEyHWtYkLJ4V1nq4SaDHIU+dWYi@[217.229.217.247]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19zvyM-1y5ADw0; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:25:14 +0200 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) h8IAPBah045432; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:25:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h8IAPAM8001296; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:25:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:25:10 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Paul Richards Message-Id: <20030918122510.50ea84c3.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1063812422.33631.104.camel@localhost> References: <200309171445.h8HEjrh6065898@grimreaper.grondar.org> <1063812422.33631.104.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: S34so6ZCgeSqMqCsm4AN+hlSnWkfEyHWtYkLJ4V1nq4SaDHIU+dWYi@t-dialin.net cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray Subject: Re: Base packaging X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:26:02 -0000 On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:27:03 +0100 Paul Richards wrote: > > However, I suspect that a marginally better place to use these would be > > in the "make distribute" target that "make release" uses. This way, the > > files are already separated out into directory structures, and it may be > > easier to build complex pkg-plist's with find(1). ALSO, it may be easier > > to make more fine-grained packages (DISTRIBUTION=foo) with this. > > I looked into this originally so that I could use the standard BSD make > includes for a project in work but I needed some way to have "install" > wrappered so that any files installed by my project were registered in a > package. Therefore, I wouldn't want it restricted to just FreeBSD > release scripts since I want to be able to use it outside of the FreeBSD > tree. We have programs in the ports tree which use our bsd.*.mk infrastructure. Will there be a problem if such a program gets installed from ports (will it try to register itself 2 times)? Bye, Alexander. -- The computer revolution is over. The computers won. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7