Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:34:56 -0400 From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> Subject: Re: Making a package from a port Message-ID: <01fb01bfa15f$3b2e0520$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> References: <l03020912b512b9e3bb4d@[153.9.17.27]>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
You hit the nail on the head. "make package" is using the PLIST to determine what goes in that package. You're going to need to edit the PLIST, then make your package. You'll only have to do this once, of course, not on each machine. -- Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:37 PM Subject: Making a package from a port > I built the python1.5.2 port with one change from the configuration that it > comes with: I changed WITH_TK? = yes to WITH_TK? = no. The port built ok, > and none of the tests failed (although some were skipped, as expected). > > The next step is to copy this working python to about a dozen other > machines in the same lab. It seemed to me that the right way to do that > would be to make a package of the newly built port. So, thinking that I was > following the instructions on FreeBSD.org's webpage, I typed, "make > package" in /usr/ports/lang/python. It worked for a few seconds, and then > quit because of an error. I'm sorry, I didn't write down the message > exactly, but the jist of it was that tar couldn't find a file named > "_tk<something>. > > That makes it seem to me as if it's trying to make a package of the > standard port *with* tk rather than my modified one. > > I suspect that I might get it to work if I edited the PLIST file by hand, > but I'm hoping that there's a more automated (and therefore probably more > accurate) way to get what I want. Any chance? > > Thanks. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science > jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston > (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 > > If there is one word to describe me, > that word would have to be "profectionist". > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?01fb01bfa15f$3b2e0520$0200000a>