Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:32 -0700 From: Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Done with this port Message-ID: <537D2188.7060508@astart.com> In-Reply-To: <537C355E.5090507@gmx.de> References: <13C1124873A73216958EF496@localhost> <537BA4B0.80400@FreeBSD.org> <75E908F4C5C8BF9E3CEC47D8@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <537C355E.5090507@gmx.de>
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On 05/20/14 22:10, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 21.05.2014 03:49, schrieb Paul Schmehl: > >> Thanks. With some of my ports I have been really struggling trying to >> get staging working. I'd be very interested to see what you did, since >> it was apparently easy for you to do. > A bit of experience with packaging helped indeed. > > The differences are visible in this automated message: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2014-May/058212.html > > The INSTALL_TARGET that sets the INSTALL_ROOT (supported by iwidget's > Makefile) is useful, and more help (for the MANN conversion) is > available on the FreeBSD Wiki: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir/ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Mathias, I think that brief description of how you did this would be VERY useful to some of us looking at this problem and not knowing where to start. Perhaps an: 'this is the way it was' and a 'this is the way it should be' document would be good. Or even a list of links to 'helpful hints' documents. Thanks! I really appreciate your efforts on the ports and packages
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