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Date:      Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:33:07 +0300
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: We need new feature for pkg_create?
Message-ID:  <20050208193307.GB43153@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <420794CC.1070604@xbsd.org>
References:  <42075175.20603@ntmk.ru> <20050207125420.GA85693@heechee.tobez.org> <20050207154456.GB65425@comp.chem.msu.su> <420794CC.1070604@xbsd.org>

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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:18:20PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >
> >IMHO, what we need is a way to restore the initial prefix setting
> >in a packing list.  The idea of @pushwd and @popwd looks really
> >neat to me.  With those commands available, it would be possible
> >to append lines using %D or just assuming the current prefix is the
> >right one to the final packing list from bsd.port.mk without breaking
> >"pkg_add -p /foo".
> >
> >BTW, here's an example that the problem is rather general.  Currently
> >using @cwd in port's pkg-plist and PORTDOCS in its Makefile results
> >precisely in broken "pkg_add -p /foo" because the build-time prefix
> >gets hardcoded in the packing list.
> 
> 	I don't like the idea of a "working directory" stack because at
> 	most, you'll push one time (or your port is behaving weirdly).

This makes sense to me.

> 	FWIW, I just sent a PR with a patch to address this issue [1].
> 	Feel free to add comments in the audit trail.
> 
> 	[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=77212

/usr/src/MAINTAINERS lists eik@freebsd.org as the maintainer of
src/usr.sbin/pkg_install.  IMHO it should be reasonable to draw
his attention to your PR.

-- 
Yar



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