Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:40:13 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: files to be checked on meta-ports Message-ID: <20070102194013.GB95902@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20070102215813.Y12293@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20070102215813.Y12293@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:06:08PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> First, happy New Year! ;-)
>
> For some time I use local meta-ports referring different sets of useful ports.
> Most of the time, this works well; the only exception is meta-ports which do
> not install own files.
>
> I thought about refering /var/db/pkg/pkgname/ files, but this seems
> unscalable due to constant path changes.
>
> Your thoughts?
I don't know if it's acceptable to look there but you can always use
${PKG_DBDIR}/${PORTNAME} to get /var/db/pkg/portname (by default). I'm
not sure I understand the "constant path changes" you mention.
I think what you really want is mentioned at the bottom of:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#AEN2226
-- WXS
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