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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:03:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/9422
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901101802180.9536-100000@guru.phone.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9901101943450.18505-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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/usr/ports/package/All doesn't seem to exist on my system
(3.0-RELEASE). Should "make package" install the package in that
directory by default, and my not having it is creating the problem?

	<mike


On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Steve Price wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:45:17 -0600 (CST)
> From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: ports/9422
> 
> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> # Nope - I'm not setting it at all. Like I said, I don't deal with
> # packages very often.
> # 
> # Having played with it, it looks like the command in the docs should
> # be:
> # 
> # 	PKG_PATH=`pwd` pkg_add `make package-name`
> # 
> # for sh users, anyway. Either that, or a step needs to be added to copy
> # the package file created by "make package" to the right place. Or
> # maybe just clarifying this, so that when you get people who don't deal
> # with packages submitting ports, it avoids the problem.
> 
> How about the attached patch for the handbook?
> 
> -steve
> 
> Index: porting.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /u/FreeBSD/cvs/doc/handbook/porting.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.120
> diff -u -r1.120 porting.sgml
> --- porting.sgml	1999/01/01 12:15:49	1.120
> +++ porting.sgml	1999/01/11 01:43:13
> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
>  	  <item><tt>make install</tt>
>  	  <item><tt>make package</tt>
>  	  <item><tt>make deinstall</tt>
> -	  <item><tt>pkg_add `make package-name`</tt>
> +	  <item><tt>PKG_PATH=`pwd` pkg_add `make package-name`</tt>
>  	  <item><tt>make deinstall</tt>
>  	  <item><tt>make reinstall</tt>
>  	  <item><tt>make package</tt>
> @@ -191,7 +191,10 @@
>  	  <tt/package/ and <tt/deinstall/ stages.  After step 3, check 
>  	  to see if all the new directories are correctly deleted.
>  	  Also, try using the software after step 4, to ensure that it 
> -	  works correctly when installed from a package.
> +	  works correctly when installed from a package.  Note if step
> +	  4 fails complaining that it can't find the package then try
> +	  setting <tt>PKG_PATH</tt> to <tt>/usr/ports/package/All</tt>.
> +	  See the manpage for <tt>pkg_add(1)</tt> for more details.
>  
>        <sect2>
>  	<heading>Checking your port with portlint<label id="porting:portlint"></heading>
> 
> 


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