[HEADSUP] Removing DESTDIR support (aka chroot not staging)

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 2 18:58:02 UTC 2019


On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 10:55:12PM +0400, Antranig Vartanian wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I use DESTDIR at $work. our simple use case is the following: mount NFS to server0 (which is more powerful), use DESTDIR to install into the NFS mounted location, then other can use and merge those binaries. (no idea how it’s done, just $legacy)
> 
> Some of our modern systems do just `make`, then we mount the powerful server to the clients and do `make install` (no need for DESTDIR)
> 
> I think a more sane way would be using `make package` or using Poudriere/Synth, but we have $legacy :)
> 
> I hope this answers the question regarding need/usage.
> 
Yup, that is 1 pont in the box of save DESTDIR for now ;), note that yes
poudriere would probably be a saner approach, but yes legacy ;)

Do you encounter issues you had to work around? or does it just work for you?

Best regards,
Bapt
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