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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:38:00 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts/mkptools mkppackage mkpbuild mkpinstall
Message-ID:  <20010817123800.A6396@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010817033021.A7431@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:30:21AM -0700
References:  <200108170941.f7H9fIY97326@freefall.freebsd.org> <17709.998042781@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010817033021.A7431@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri 2001-08-17 (03:30), Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > >   Add mkppackage, which will create a "fake"-style package, but not
> > >   really.  It doesn't try fake PREFIX and such to the build (it's not
> > >   really possible anyway yet), but it uses pkg_create's '-s' option to
> > >   pretend the package generated was installed in ${PREFIX}.
> > 
> > Useful for, amongst other things, providing binary patch packages, yes?
> 
> I'm not immediately sure how..I haven't needed anything like this for
> the binary patch packages I've made so far.

Well, that's because you're either installing it directly where it will
live (ie, live on the filesystem), or are already using pkg_create's
'-s' option, either manually, or via pkg_tarup or via EXTRA_PKG_ARGS.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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