Testing DESTDIR

Lupe Christoph lupe at lupe-christoph.de
Thu Nov 2 10:45:27 UTC 2006


On Thursday, 2006-11-02 at 10:33:06 +0100, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
> Lupe Christoph írta:

> the DESTDIR support is not quite ready yet. The current implementation 
> is quite complicated and requires a lot of effort to maintain and 
> support. I'm working on an improvement to do everything chrooted, but I 
> have some difficulties with it, so it will take some time. With that 
> change you won't have to do anything special to support DESTDIR, the 
> infrastructure will build and install it chrooted.

Indeed, supporting DESTDIR would mean to chroot a lot of things in the
pkg-install and pkg-deinstall scripts. So I guess I'll postpone DESTDIR
support until I can test it.

Thanks for your explanation!
Lupe Christoph
-- 
| You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear     |
| weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest   |
| bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?                               |
| Rockhound in "Armageddon", 1998, about the Space Shuttle               |


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list