Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:06:47 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: G?bor K?vesd?n <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: babak@farrokhi.net, amdmi3@mail.ru, John E Hein <jhein@timing.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: DESTDIR implementation [Was:: ATTENTION: is the way DESTDIR was introduced completely wrong?] Message-ID: <20060816180646.GA79702@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44E35C08.3020502@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060814234414.GA57035@hades.panopticon> <44E194BA.2020507@FreeBSD.org> <17634.5246.887894.836856@gromit.timing.com> <20060816173628.GA14848@xor.obsecurity.org> <44E35C08.3020502@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:55:20PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:37:50PM -0600, John E Hein wrote:
> >
> > =20
> >>The hard part is to get ports writers to think the right way about
> >>DESTDIR after ignoring it for so many years. And once you decide to
> >>go about fixing it, there's no way around that problem.
> >> =20
> >
> >My preferred solution involves a couple of shell commands, along the
> >lines of the following:
> >
> >mount_nullfs ${PORTSDIR} ${DESTDIR}${PORTSDIR}
> >mount_nullfs ${WRKDIR} ${DESTDIR}${WRKDIR}
> >mount_devfs foo ${DESTDIR}/dev
> >chroot ${DESTDIR} cd ${.CURDIR} && make install
> >
> >A suitable version of the above should allow all ports to be installed
> >into a jail-ready filesystem hierarchy, while requiring 0 port
> >changes.
> >
> >Kris
> > =20
>=20
> This makes sense, but I did not succeed to use mount_nullfs on an=20
> 5.3-RELEASE/amd64 machine, while the same worked well on my 6.1/i386=20
> computer, so I'm not sure mount_nullfs is reliable enough on older system=
s.
Who cares about old systems that are already unsupported and will only
become even more unsupported over time? Nullfs works in 6.x and will
continue to work in the future (since I use it extensively and yell at
whoever breaks it ;-)
> Also, other targets should be supported as well, and the nullmounted=20
> directory should be umounted after he run. Anyway, I find this solution=
=20
> very good, if we can work this out a bit better, my progress so far=20
> would become pointless...
It's a shame to throw away your work, but IMO it would also be a
bigger shame not to proceed if a simpler solution can be made to work.
Kris
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