Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 17:30:46 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to install into staging area correctly? Message-ID: <20131206173046.48dd4b39@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <CALd%2BdceYa7M3XzjZthGDE-%2BsBXO_rdaV3NeWuf08t65EN21eCQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALd%2BdceYa7M3XzjZthGDE-%2BsBXO_rdaV3NeWuf08t65EN21eCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:06:59 -0500
Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org> wrote:
> I have a port locally that does this to install a file so other ports
> that depend on this can have something to depend on from the file
> system.
>
> do-install:
> ${CP} /dev/null ${LOCALBASE}/etc/rwde-base-installed
>
>
> Lately it seems that the ports does a staging step, and the above
> file is not found when building the package for that process. I
> changed it to
>
>
> do-install:
> ${CP} /dev/null
> ${STAGEDIR}${LOCALBASE}/etc/rwde-base-installed
>
>
> Is this safe to use ${STAGEDIR} unconditionally like this? Should I be
> using a different variable to install my file in the do-install step?
I think you should use ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}, not ${LOCALBASE}.
--
Michael Gmelin
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