From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 10:07:06 2004 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 4F66316A4CE; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:07:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0696E43D99; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:05:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) i0KI3gsm062735; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:03:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Marius Strobl In-Reply-To: <20040120190234.A13333@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <1074590694.85583.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <400D2939.5090203@fillmore-labs.com> <1074617147.757.16.camel@gyros> <20040120171315.GH94636@FreeBSD.org> <1074619795.757.43.camel@gyros> <20040120190234.A13333@newtrinity.zeist.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9" Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. Message-Id: <1074621917.757.61.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:05:17 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway cc: Eivind Eklund cc: Oliver Eikemeier Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes 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: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:07:06 -0000 --=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:02, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:29:55PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >=20 > > I agree. This approach seems the most flexible. As for not being able > > to do non-root installs, this is a bogus argument as one could simply > > override PORT_DBDIR as they would PKG_DBDIR (even with the original > > patch). > >=20 >=20 > I was taking about non-root builds, e.g. single ports checked out > outside of PKGBASE to do maintenance work, not non-root installs. In > an environment where non-root installs are done your argument is valid. > Not being able to do non-root builds compilcates the job of maintainers. As I said, non-root builds could override PORT_DBDIR the same way you could override PKG_DBDIR. You could point that to a directory to which you could write. What am I missing? Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBADW3db2iPiv4Uz4cRAq/rAJ48DPVa+nE2J6XphYm0esr9i+sYJgCfa1YJ 8IhH2VUfOE+JYIYQ/pnDrkY= =eiax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9--