DESTDIR implementation [Was:: ATTENTION: is the way DESTDIR was introduced completely wrong?]

[Gábor Kövesdán]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:55:20PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
>   
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:37:50PM -0600, John E Hein wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> The hard part is to get ports writers to think the right way about
>>>> DESTDIR after ignoring it for so many years.  And once you decide to
>>>> go about fixing it, there's no way around that problem.
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> My preferred solution involves a couple of shell commands, along the
>>> lines of the following:
>>>
>>> mount_nullfs ${PORTSDIR} ${DESTDIR}${PORTSDIR}
>>> mount_nullfs ${WRKDIR} ${DESTDIR}${WRKDIR}
>>> mount_devfs foo ${DESTDIR}/dev
>>> chroot ${DESTDIR} cd ${.CURDIR} && make install
>>>
>>> A suitable version of the above should allow all ports to be installed
>>> into a jail-ready filesystem hierarchy, while requiring 0 port
>>> changes.
>>>
>>> Kris
>>>  
>>>       
>> This makes sense, but I did not succeed to use mount_nullfs on an 
>> 5.3-RELEASE/amd64 machine, while the same worked well on my 6.1/i386 
>> computer, so I'm not sure mount_nullfs is reliable enough on older systems.
>>     
>
> Who cares about old systems that are already unsupported and will only
> become even more unsupported over time?  Nullfs works in 6.x and will
> continue to work in the future (since I use it extensively and yell at
> whoever breaks it ;-)
>
>   
>> Also, other targets should be supported as well, and the nullmounted 
>> directory should be umounted after he run. Anyway, I find this solution 
>> very good, if we can work this out a bit better, my progress so far 
>> would become pointless...
>>     
>
> It's a shame to throw away your work, but IMO it would also be a
> bigger shame not to proceed if a simpler solution can be made to work.
>
> Kris
>   
Agreed. I just feel a bit guilty, since I made things complicated and 
obscure, while I just want to provide a good solution, but haven't 
thought of mount_nullfs.

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Cheers,

Gabor