pkg_create

[Clifton Royston]

[Sorry for the lost references, I'm reading this in digest form.]

> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>
> Subject: Re: pkg_create
> To: Adam Balogh <adam at vattnet.net>
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
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> There weas no resolution though I discoverred that teh mechanism for the
> bug is that the "-C" argument is applied to tar immediatly
> that such a line is encounterred on teh arg list or the pascking list.
> 
> the answer would be to not put the "-C" arg on the 'tar' list until a
> file to save is actually encounterred.
> 
> I have not done that yet however.  (other fish to fry).
> On 19 Aug 2003, Adam Balogh wrote:
...
> > The original discussion. 
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-June/001673.html

  In switching back and forth between FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a
prototype system we're building, I've noticed that the OpenBSD ports
system works in the conceptually "correct" order for package creation
(or at any rate the preferable-to-me order.)

  It first creates a root-like subtree in the work directory, installs
the port to that pseudo-root tree, creates the package from that
directory and only then installs the package it has just created.  In
other words, in OpenBSD ports "make install" does a "make package" and
then pkg_adds it, whereas in FreeBSD ports "make package" does a "make
install" and then pkg_creates it.  IMHO the former is more flexible,
because it allows you to create a package on a system without
installing it, and then install it onto a different system.  (Or, for
instance, build a whole suite of packages in advance and then install
them at a later time.)

  Seems to me this must mean OpenBSD either fixed the pkg_create bug or
found an adequate work-around for it using this relative root
directory.  Possibly worth looking into how it's solved there?  I must
admit I haven't yet been able to bend my head around either set of
master makefiles to understand how they work or how the bug is dealt
with, but I thought I'd throw this tidbit out where it might reach
someone who understands the FreeBSD ports make system better than I do.

  -- Clifton

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