Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:41:16 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH2 (in FreeBSD-Questions) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906052236270.27002-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906050723430.25758-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Matt Behrens wrote:
> : Patches accepted - actually, even just send-pr'ing a list of the broken ones
> : would be more useful than just mentioning "ports in general".
> :
> : It's hard to fix what we don't know is broken.
>
> That I can understand. Please note also, though, the distinction
> I make above with the packages that ignore command-line switches
> -- I'm referring to the source tarballs themselves. A patch to
> work around this broken behavior would be convoluted at best, I
> would think. However, I'm certainly not going to just complain
> and not do anything. I'll try to find the offenders again and make
> patches. (Along those lines, I've noticed very few PLISTs contain
> entries for manpages. Are they _supposed_ to?)
Nope - they used to, but there were problems with manpages being gzipped, and
being left around when the port was deinstalled. thesedays the manpage
installation/deinstallation is taken care of via the MAN? variables and logic
in bsd.port.mk
> I've been mulling over solutions to this in my mind lately and
> wonder if something along the lines of "/etc/paths.conf" or maybe
> just another several lines in "/etc/make.conf" might be useful.
> PREFIX works pretty well but it's limited to stuffing in a single
> directory. I think the flexibility could be there to do something
>
The problem is that most software doesn't support such fine-grained
installation control, and so in general you'd have to rework the build
structure (and code) of the majority of ports.
Not a small undertaking.
Kris
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