We need new feature for pkg_create?

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:45:28PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:18:20PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >
> >>>IMHO, what we need is a way to restore the initial prefix setting
> >>>in a packing list.  The idea of @pushwd and @popwd looks really
> >>>neat to me.  With those commands available, it would be possible
> >>>to append lines using %D or just assuming the current prefix is the
> >>>right one to the final packing list from bsd.port.mk without breaking
> >>>"pkg_add -p /foo".
> >>>
> >>>BTW, here's an example that the problem is rather general.  Currently
> >>>using @cwd in port's pkg-plist and PORTDOCS in its Makefile results
> >>>precisely in broken "pkg_add -p /foo" because the build-time prefix
> >>>gets hardcoded in the packing list.
> >>
> >>	I don't like the idea of a "working directory" stack because at
> >>	most, you'll push one time (or your port is behaving weirdly).
> >
> >
> >This makes sense to me.
> 
> 	I updated the patch this afternoon, this worked for me but
> 	everyone should be aware that even with this patch, pkg_add -p
> 	will still not work for a lot of ports since the original prefix
> 	is often hardcoded during port compilation.

Such ports can be fixed after your modification to pkg tools is
committed.  I think it will be worth sending a HEADSUP message to
this list so that port maintainers notice the welcome feature.

> >>	FWIW, I just sent a PR with a patch to address this issue [1].
> >>	Feel free to add comments in the audit trail.
> >>
> >>	[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=77212
> >
> >
> >/usr/src/MAINTAINERS lists eik at freebsd.org as the maintainer of
> >src/usr.sbin/pkg_install.  IMHO it should be reasonable to draw
> >his attention to your PR.
> 
> 	According to krion, pkg_install is portmgr territory.
> 	I have cc'ed eik in my last reply though.

Thanks!

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Yar