Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:00:23 +0000 From: Vince Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: papowell@astart.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option Message-ID: <54B93597.9080808@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <54B9336D.6090901@astart.com> References: <D029D964D3A96A570922090C@ogg.in.absolight.net> <ee422bd630292fe6f7bc5439799667de@lhaven.homeip.net> <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net> <20150113163324.299F27E9@hub.freebsd.org> <20150114080033.GE33449@droso.dk> <20150114153427.63AD7C0A@hub.freebsd.org> <54B696BF.5020901@FreeBSD.org> <20150114163443.280B1ED9@hub.freebsd.org> <20150115084803.GM33449@droso.dk> <20150115170017.3CB64A96@hub.freebsd.org> <54B9336D.6090901@astart.com>
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On 16/01/2015 15:51, Patrick Powell wrote: > On 01/15/15 09:00, Roger Marquis wrote: >>> This sounds like you, like many other people have done in the past, >>> have >>> built an in-house solution based on the tools available at the time, >>> which includes 'make package' >> >> I wouldn't call it an in-house solution since the package target is a >> feature of the ports infrastructure. We simply 'make package' and >> install other systems from the resulting package. >> >> This does not, however, appear to be as well supported by portsng/pkgng >> as it was in the previous versions. Now it just exits with no message >> and a 0 exit-code without creating the package unless you've created >> /usr/ports/packages and/or specified one or more of WRKDIRPREFIX, >> PACKAGES and PKGREPOSITORY. >> >> What documentation there is seems to be based on older versions (like >> much of the FreeBSD website) and I haven't found anything on the >> differences between 'make package' and Poudriere. >> >> Roger >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > This is actually a side effect of the STAGING implementation. The > package file is put into the > port (created) work sub directory. Now if I could only find the > documentation that tells me how to put, say, > WORK_DIRECTORY=/var/tmp/work into the /etc/make.conf file or > something similar I would be > a very (well, not so grumpy) happy camper. I read this somewhere once > but I cannot find > it again. WRKDIRPREFIX? WORKDIRPREFIX? > >From looking in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk I think you want to set one of the following in make.conf # WRKDIRPREFIX - The place to root the temporary working directory # hierarchy. # Default: none # WRKDIR - A temporary working directory that gets *clobbered* on clean # Default: ${WRKDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/work not the most intuitive place to look but I guess thats why the BUGS section of PORTS(7) says BUGS Ports documentation is split over four places -- /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, The Porter's Handbook, the ``Packages and Ports'' chapter of The FreeBSD Handbook, and this manual page. Vince
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