Making a port that installs only an RC script provided in FILESDIR
Mel Pilgrim
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Thu Nov 16 20:06:54 UTC 2017
On 11/16/2017 11:17, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Mel Pilgrim wrote on 2017/11/16 19:30:
>> I have a port that has exactly one file: an RC script provided in the
>> FILESDIR of the skeleton itself. I can't use metaport because I do have
>> to install a file.
>>
>> I've had no luck finding anything that explains how to do this, and am
>> meeting no end of errors when I test the port.
>
> If you have files/my_port.in
>
> then you need this in your Makefile
>
> USE_RC_SUBR= my_port
Already had that. The port needed extra settings so that make didn't
try to fetch anything and stage didn't try to look for WRKSRC. The part
I was missing was (quite unintuitively) setting NO_INSTALL=yes on a port
that will install files.
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