svn commit: r332668 - in head/security: . pkesh

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 6 07:31:27 UTC 2013


On 11/05/13 23:28, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:17:59PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
>> On 11/05/13 23:10, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>> +PLIST_FILES=	bin/pkesh			\
>>>> +		%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/README
>>>> +PLIST_DIRS=	%%DOCSDIR%%
>>>
>>> Using PORTDOCS=README would allow you to 1) get tid of eye-tearing %%'s in
>>> PLIST_FILES and drop PLIST_DIRS.
>>
>> Huh.  I was confused by the [staging] wiki page since it says "Just add
>> the right %%PORTDOCS%% as prefix in your pkg-plist...".
> 
> Yes, if you prefer to list docs explicitly in pkg-list (real file), you
> have to use so-called "plist subs", %%FOOBAR%%.  When using PLIST_FILES
> or PORTDOCS (using them often makes, esp. for short plists), you do not
> need to do all the dancing with subs, it is done automagically for you.
> 
> That said,
> 
>   PLIST_FILES=	bin/pkesh
>   PORTDOCS=	README
> 
> is all it takes.

Awesome!  Please make the documentation less confusing. ;-)

>>>> +do-install:
>>>> +	${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKSRC}/pkesh.sh ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/pkesh
>>>> +
>>>> +post-install:
>>>> +	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
>>>> +	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/README ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
>>>
>>> You could've simply merged all commands in do-install target.  No need for
>>> two of them, really. :-)
>>
>> The aforementioned wiki page says "Directory creation should remain in the
>> post-install: target" so that's what I did...
> 
> It mentions post-install because usually do-install simply calls install
> target (via ${INSTALL_TARGET}) provided by the upstream build system.  So,
> using post-install is more generic, yes.  However, in cases when you have
> to roll your own do-install, there is no any need to split the two.

Good to know.  I'll go ahead and fix all of these.

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Colin Percival
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