Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:50:23 -0400 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: papowell@astart.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A possible flaw and headache in the PORTS philosophy Message-ID: <20000530135023.B21627@argon.gryphonsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200005301734.KAA02193@h4.private>; from papowell@astart.com on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:34:30AM -0700 References: <200005301734.KAA02193@h4.private>
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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:34:30AM -0700, papowell@astart.com wrote:
> Summary:
>
> You need a way at PACKAGE generation time to tell the package
> creation stuff to put some 'postinstall files' into the package.
Do this with a post-install target in the Makefile.
post-install:
[ install some files ]
Then just put the files in pkg/PLIST.
> You need a way at PACKAGE install time to tell the POST script
> that the files are located at a specific location.
What "POST script" are you talking about?
> You need a way at PACKAGE removal time to tell the PACKAGE stuff
> that the 'postinstall files' are to be ignored and not to
> indicate an error if they cannot be found/removed.
Simple fix: don't put them in the PLIST.
> Being the anal retentive person that I am, I want to TEST the
> installation automagically, both for the ports_from_source and
> the pkg_add stuff.
There is a test process described on:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/porting.html
Which I assume you read before you tried porting LPRng.
> The problem I am encountering is that the current set of package
> targets/support in the Makefile do not lend themselves to packages
> that require 'transient' files to be put into a package, and then
> to be installed by the POST package script.
Files that should not be removed by the packaging system shouldn't go in
the PLIST.
> Here is an example. The LPRng software uses a couple of configuration
> files, /etc/printcap, /etc/lpd.conf, /etc/lpd.perms which MUST
> be put into these locations, but only if the original files are not
> present. This (can be? should be?) done by creating some 'prototype'
> files for package use, and then when you run 'pkg_add' have the POST
> script in the package move them to the appropriate locations.
Put examples of these files in ${PREFIX}/etc, and notify the user that
they must merge them into their /etc counterparts.
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