Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:54:26 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: pkg MANIFEST documentation Message-ID: <20130314085426.GG53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <51418EA3.9080305@ish.com.au> References: <51417D87.8030901@ish.com.au> <20130314075009.GE53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51418671.9030001@ish.com.au> <CADLo83_4SQAeqt9HKzffsx0GrJhjheM2h3-8jrzCE3htyO1d1w@mail.gmail.com> <51418EA3.9080305@ish.com.au>
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--j2AXaZ4YhVcLc+PQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:47:31PM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > On 14/03/13 7:31pm, Chris Rees wrote: > > Packages never supported PREFIX. You can change PREFIX in ports, at co= mpile time, but once the compilation is done, changing PREFIX will break ma= ny compiled binaries. >=20 > OK, good to know thanks. So this change from relative tar packaging (pkg_= ) to absolute paths (pkgng) is a way of ensuring that packages are never po= rtable? >=20 > I still don't understand the "prefix" attribute in MANIFEST. I guess it s= hould be removed? The prefix attribute is mostly informative and is to be used in scripts, for compatibility. regards, Bapt --j2AXaZ4YhVcLc+PQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlFBkEIACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExYrACeKioTxU3LM5yd+o82rGHyW14C VdsAnjhAztbZRcMGjgfromcrsonky4mW =yVFh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --j2AXaZ4YhVcLc+PQ--
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