portupgrade & RO ports tree (was Re: [kris@freebsd.org: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk])

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:40:14PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 04:34:28PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:21:52AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:38:29AM +0400, "."@babolo.ru wrote:
> > > > > Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > > > > Hm, execuse me my sarcasm, but do we really need the second portupgrade
> > > > > > in C???
> > > > > 
> > > > > I see two main reasons:
> > > > > 1) portupgrade is not in base system and never be there because of ruby.
> > > > > 2) Because it is in ruby :)
> > > > 3) Because it do not works on RO mounted /usr/ports
> > > 
> > > It does. I have always run it in such a setup.
> > 
> > No, it should. And ports which fail to build because of this should
> > be fixed to use the WRKDIRPREFIX variable.
> > 
> > Kris, can we have a run of the ports-package system with a RO
> > /usr/ports to see which ports fail because of this?
> 
> It always has, and none of them do :)

In that case, I stand corrected.

Edwin

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