Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:05:17 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes Message-ID: <1074621917.757.61.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20040120190234.A13333@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <1074590694.85583.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <400D2939.5090203@fillmore-labs.com> <1074617147.757.16.camel@gyros> <20040120171315.GH94636@FreeBSD.org> <1074619795.757.43.camel@gyros> <20040120190234.A13333@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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--=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:02, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:29:55PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >=20 > > I agree. This approach seems the most flexible. As for not being able > > to do non-root installs, this is a bogus argument as one could simply > > override PORT_DBDIR as they would PKG_DBDIR (even with the original > > patch). > >=20 >=20 > I was taking about non-root builds, e.g. single ports checked out > outside of PKGBASE to do maintenance work, not non-root installs. In > an environment where non-root installs are done your argument is valid. > Not being able to do non-root builds compilcates the job of maintainers. As I said, non-root builds could override PORT_DBDIR the same way you could override PKG_DBDIR. You could point that to a directory to which you could write. What am I missing? Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBADW3db2iPiv4Uz4cRAq/rAJ48DPVa+nE2J6XphYm0esr9i+sYJgCfa1YJ 8IhH2VUfOE+JYIYQ/pnDrkY= =eiax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tLAtpqVpvhqT4h/L3hw9--
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