Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 06:39:22 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: adam@veda.is Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/dgd Makefile Message-ID: <199505031339.GAA11166@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199505031314.NAA08751@veda.is> (message from Adam David on Wed, 3 May 1995 13:14:53 %2B0000 (GMT))
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* > Actually I didn't ask you this before: Why do you want it to be * > package-able without installing it? * * The installed copy might be a different version or have modified * library files. Actually, libraries are not included in the base * package and will be separate packages. However, libraries might * depend on a specific version of the driver, so it is not good to * clobber an existing installation simply for the purpose of * generating a package for export. Well, that's all well but I don't think anybody else than us (people who put the packages on wcarchive and CDROMS) really use the "package" target. ;) I agree with you that it's not nice to clobber an existing installation just to generate a package, but many ports need a major surgery in pkg/PLIST to allow un-installed packaging, and we chose to ignore that problem for the sake of simplicity. If it works, then it's fine, but I've already stumbled upon this twice and it's eating up precious time in the pre-release. If it breaks again, I'm inclined to remove all your "workarounds" from PLIST, I hope you don't mind. Satoshi
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