Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:28:31 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Subject: Re: Base packaging Message-ID: <1063880911.33631.150.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030918122510.50ea84c3.Alexander@Leidinger.net> References: <200309171445.h8HEjrh6065898@grimreaper.grondar.org> <1063812422.33631.104.camel@localhost> <20030918122510.50ea84c3.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:25, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:27:03 +0100 > Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> 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)? I don't know, have you got an example port I can look at? Paul.
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