From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 16 18:14:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org 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 91A4216A4DE; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:14:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0769A43D49; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:14:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112D599C85F; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:14:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id DYk7tjHT+OO8; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:14:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-50635cb6.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.92.182]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DD299C856; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:14:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44E36070.4080007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:14:08 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <20060814234414.GA57035@hades.panopticon> <44E194BA.2020507@FreeBSD.org> <17634.5246.887894.836856@gromit.timing.com> <20060816173628.GA14848@xor.obsecurity.org> <44E35C08.3020502@FreeBSD.org> <20060816180646.GA79702@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060816180646.GA79702@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: babak@farrokhi.net, amdmi3@mail.ru, John E Hein , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Erwin Lansing Subject: Re: DESTDIR implementation [Was:: ATTENTION: is the way DESTDIR was introduced completely wrong?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:14:15 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:55:20PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote: > >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:37:50PM -0600, John E Hein wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The hard part is to get ports writers to think the right way about >>>> DESTDIR after ignoring it for so many years. And once you decide to >>>> go about fixing it, there's no way around that problem. >>>> >>>> >>> My preferred solution involves a couple of shell commands, along the >>> lines of the following: >>> >>> mount_nullfs ${PORTSDIR} ${DESTDIR}${PORTSDIR} >>> mount_nullfs ${WRKDIR} ${DESTDIR}${WRKDIR} >>> mount_devfs foo ${DESTDIR}/dev >>> chroot ${DESTDIR} cd ${.CURDIR} && make install >>> >>> A suitable version of the above should allow all ports to be installed >>> into a jail-ready filesystem hierarchy, while requiring 0 port >>> changes. >>> >>> Kris >>> >>> >> This makes sense, but I did not succeed to use mount_nullfs on an >> 5.3-RELEASE/amd64 machine, while the same worked well on my 6.1/i386 >> computer, so I'm not sure mount_nullfs is reliable enough on older systems. >> > > Who cares about old systems that are already unsupported and will only > become even more unsupported over time? Nullfs works in 6.x and will > continue to work in the future (since I use it extensively and yell at > whoever breaks it ;-) > > >> Also, other targets should be supported as well, and the nullmounted >> directory should be umounted after he run. Anyway, I find this solution >> very good, if we can work this out a bit better, my progress so far >> would become pointless... >> > > It's a shame to throw away your work, but IMO it would also be a > bigger shame not to proceed if a simpler solution can be made to work. > > Kris > Agreed. I just feel a bit guilty, since I made things complicated and obscure, while I just want to provide a good solution, but haven't thought of mount_nullfs. -- Cheers, Gabor