Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:59:15 +0200 From: "Peter Looyenga" <pl@catslair.org> To: "'Matthew Seaman'" <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: stagedir vs. jail Message-ID: <005401cec835$8caca670$a605f350$@catslair.org> In-Reply-To: <525AC179.5090406@FreeBSD.org> References: <20131013105853.GA63463@doom-labs.net> <20131013115031.GF91605@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <003401cec820$c2bbcf80$48336e80$@catslair.org> <525AC179.5090406@FreeBSD.org>
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>> I know this method is frowned upon because it's not a method which was
>> intended to be used by end users, but I have to disagree with you here:
this
>> setting seems to work flawlessly in disabling staging.
> Until you try to install a port that has been converted to use staging,
> when it will likely fail. You're only getting apparent successes at the
> moment because the staging conversion process has only recently begun.
I'm also not too sure abou that. When looking at lang/perl5.14 you'll see
upon studying it's Makefile that it fully seems to support staging. It
doesn't set NO_STAGE, when issueing "make build" you'll come across the
stage directory in the ports work directory, and even in the Makefile itself
you'll see it being put to use. For example:
post-install:
@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/perl5/${PERL_VER}/man/man3
@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/auto
And yet this is also a good example of a port where a reinstall or updating
will fail on my system because of pkg_add being used to install the
generated package, which in its turn demands /tmp to have the exec flag set.
I'm repeating myself, but forcing NO_STAGE overrides that behavior.
However, one thing I do agree with: you're absolutely right that staging is
still in the early stages (no pun intended), so I wouldn't be surprised if
this behavior got changed somehow in the future.
Kind regards, Peter
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