Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:23:53 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: Explain staging Message-ID: <201310070923.r979Nra2043025@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <524DD8C6.8060602@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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>From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
>To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Explain staging
>
>On 03/10/2013 08:56, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> sorry, I still don't get it.
>> What is achived by staging?
>
>There are 4 main advantages:
>
> 1) You can build a port and then create a package from the stage
> directory without having to install it on your build system. You
> usually don't need root privileges to do this.
What about "make fetch"? It puts files by default under
ports/distfiles, which, by default, is 755:
$ make fetch
===> xearth-1.2 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
=> xearth-1.2.tar.xz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> /usr/ports/distfiles is not writable by you; cannot fetch.
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/astro/xearth
$
What about "make extract"? Same problem:
$ make extract
===> xearth-1.2 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
===> Fetching all distfiles required by xearth-1.2 for building
===> Extracting for xearth-1.2
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for xearth-1.2.tar.xz.
mkdir: /usr/ports/astro/xearth/work: Permission denied
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/astro/xearth
$
"make checksum" works, of course, because no files are
created:
$ make checksum
===> xearth-1.2 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
===> Fetching all distfiles required by xearth-1.2 for building
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for xearth-1.2.tar.xz.
$
Then "make stage" fails again:
$ make stage
===> Patching for xearth-1.2
touch: /usr/ports/astro/xearth/work/.patch_done.xearth._usr_local: Permission denied
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/astro/xearth
$
So I make it under root.
Then "make check-orphans" fail:
$ make check-orphans
cannot create /usr/ports/astro/xearth/work/.expanded-plist: Permission denied
*** Error code 2
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/astro/xearth
$
Finally, "make package" fails:
$ make package
===> Building package for xearth-1.2
mkdir: /usr/ports/astro/xearth/work/.metadir: Permission denied
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/astro/xearth
$
I'm probably missing something important here.
The wiki page only says: "Make sure you tested
make package as a normal user (not root).
If that fails, add NEED_ROOT in the port. "
Why would it not fail?
Do I need to set up separate distfiles directory,
or something like this?
> 2) Instead of (typically) just running the install target of the
> piece of software, and then trusting that the pkg-plist contains
> an accurate list of what gets installed, now we take the pkg-plist
> and extract the matching items from the stage directory to make a
> package. Only things on the plist get installed, and things on
> the plist but not present in the staging dir will flag up as an
> error in the port.
This is not clear either.
I my port I have:
PLIST_FILES= bin/xearth \
lib/X11/xearth/freebsd.committers.markers \
lib/X11/xearth/freebsd.ftp.markers
PLIST_DIRS= lib/X11/xearth
I don't have pkg-plist at all.
What do I need to change?
>If you have an instruction in you port to install a file from the build
>area into the filesystem under ${PREFIX} =3D /usr/local then you need to
>change it to install to ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/whatever. Note: this only
>applies to the *install* parts: when building the package, you should
>configure it for the eventual final install location under /usr/local.
Does this look right:
do-install:
@${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/xearth ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin
@${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/xearth.man ${MANPREFIX}/man/man1/xearth.1
@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/X11/xearth
# Copy the list of FreeBSD sites & committers locations
.for marker in freebsd.committers.markers freebsd.ftp.markers
@${INSTALL_DATA} ${FILESDIR}/${marker} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/X11/xearth
.endfor
Many thanks
Anton
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