Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:13:46 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org> To: papowell@astart.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A possible flaw and headache in the PORTS philosophy Message-ID: <20000530181345.C83316@orange> 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:
>
> You need a way at PACKAGE generation time to tell the package
There are many things we need. :)
> I am putting up the LPRng print spooler in a package for FreeBSD.
Excellent!
> Question 1:
> There does not appear to be a facility to inform the pkg_create
> facility that there are a set of files that are 'temporary', and
> need to be placed in the package. The packinglist '@ignore' facility
> might be useful, but there is no documentation or explanations
> of where or how to use it. Same for the '@ignore_inst'
> directive.
I think my answer to Q. #3 applies here.
The package system (pkg_create(1), pkg_add(1), etc) is meant to be
functional outside of the ports system. Not all of its features are
easy to use from within the ports system, nor are they necessarily
appropriate.
> Question 2:
> You need to put these files that you want in place in the locations
> where you want them for the package. This should be done 'before'
> you do the actual package work. A 'pre-package' target in the Makefile
> would be VERY useful for this purpose.
Actually, there is a pre-package: target. It's probably not
documented because it's usually not needed, though.
You can also conditionalize anything with:
.if defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING)
...
.endif
However, simply installing files from pre-package: probably won't do
what you want.
I think what you want to do is always install the lpgNG files
printcap, etc. into a directory, either ${PREFIX}/share/lprNG or
${PREFIX}/share/doc/lprNG. Add those files to pkg/PLIST (don't forget
the @dirrm). Those are then sample copies. Now, write a pkg/INSTALL
script that will conditionally copy files from their sample location
in ${PREFIX}/share/lprNG to wherever. Add a post-install: target that
looks like:
post-install:
PKG_PREFIX=${PREFIX} ${SH} ${PKGINSTALL}
That will work for both the binary package and the build-from-source
cases.
As far as I can understand what you are trying to do, this is the way
to do it.
> Question 3:
> How do you tell the package stuff to ignore files if they are
> not there (i.e. - Question 1 and Question 2). Or does the '@ignore'
> take care of this?
I think the answer is that the question is invalid. :) If I
understand you correctly, then the question is nulled by my answer to
#2.
I hope I've understood you correctly, however.
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