Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:39:55 -0600 From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20601: DESTDIR and /etc/shells Message-ID: <15281.5579.4555.489604@brain.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <20010824042706.A76829@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200108231510.f7NFA2A96921@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010823172108.B2573@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010823133038.A99713@xor.obsecurity.org> <15237.30244.936932.928537@brain.timing.com> <20010824042706.A76829@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote at 04:27 -0700 on Aug 24: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:31:16PM -0600, John E Hein wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote at 13:30 -0700 on Aug 23: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:21:09PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > > > > It's pretty obvious that a large number of ports will not support > > > > DESTDIR immediately after the change. However, I do believe it's > > > > something we must have. If I do some testing locally, can we move > > > > forward with this a week after 4.4-RELEASE is out the door? > > > > > > It's pretty hard for us to move forward with any nontrivial changes > > > without the ability to test them in a package build. This is a major > > > outstanding problem..perhaps we can just take over bento for a week or > > > two and get some of the backlog sorted out. > > > > I'm curious... does the package building process for releases define > > DESTDIR to something other than "" or /? > > > > If not, then the patch in 28155 should be completely trivial. > > We'll get back to this after 4.4-RELEASE. Now that 4.4-RELEASE is out and there are no other FreeBSD fires to put out ;), I updated the patch in the ports/28155 PR to match the HEAD bsd.port.mk and to move a chunk of the patch to the "post" section so it worked with more ports... just thought I'd mention it in case anyone wanted to try out the alleged improvements to DESTDIR handling in ports. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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