From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 22:47:25 2005 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 B9FD716A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:47:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (comp.chem.msu.su [158.250.32.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC3E43D4C for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:47:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j18MlMnZ052991; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:47:22 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: (from yar@localhost) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id j18MlK0P052990; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:47:21 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yar) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:47:20 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy To: Florent Thoumie Message-ID: <20050208224720.GA52927@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <42075175.20603@ntmk.ru> <20050207125420.GA85693@heechee.tobez.org> <20050207154456.GB65425@comp.chem.msu.su> <420794CC.1070604@xbsd.org> <20050208193307.GB43153@comp.chem.msu.su> <420916D8.90606@xbsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420916D8.90606@xbsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Boris Kovalenko cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We need new feature for pkg_create? 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, 08 Feb 2005 22:47:25 -0000 On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:45:28PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >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. > > I updated the patch this afternoon, this worked for me but > everyone should be aware that even with this patch, pkg_add -p > will still not work for a lot of ports since the original prefix > is often hardcoded during port compilation. Such ports can be fixed after your modification to pkg tools is committed. I think it will be worth sending a HEADSUP message to this list so that port maintainers notice the welcome feature. > >> 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. > > According to krion, pkg_install is portmgr territory. > I have cc'ed eik in my last reply though. Thanks! -- Yar