Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:32:24 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Package creation without installation Message-ID: <19990826113224.A70914@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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-ports,
This isn't directly a -ports issue. However, I tried -hackers, and the
silence was deafening. I figure you folks have the most experience with
using the pkg_* commands, and the format, and are the next best set of
people to answer this query. I'm not on the list, so would appreciate a
cc: of any replies. Thanks.
N
----- Forwarded message from Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> -----
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:02:40 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Package creation without installation
-hackers,
I'm playing around with the pkg_create(1) command at the moment, trying
to get the creation of pre-built versions (HTML, PS, etc) of the FDP
documentation working.
One of the things I'm trying to do is *not* require that the doc that's
being packaged up be installed first.
For example, if I'm building the PS version of the FAQ then I can
# pwd
/tmp/niks-package-build-area
# cd doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq
# make FORMATS=ps
What I'd like to do is then create a package from this file, such that
when it is installed it does not default to installing in to
/tmp/niks-package-build-area/docs/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq
but instead defaults to installing somewhere under /usr/share/doc/.
>From my read of the pkg_create(1) man page this should be possible, using
either the -s command line option, or the @srcdir directive in the PLIST.
But I can't get it to work. Using the above directories as an example,
I would expect the following to work:
# pkg_create -c COMMENT -d DESCR -f PLIST -p /usr/share/doc -s . faq.tgz
(where PLIST contains one line, "book.ps"). From reading pkg_create(1),
this should set the installation prefix to "/usr/share/doc", giving an
installed filename of "/usr/share/doc/faq.ps", but should use the current
directory when building the tar file. So at this point,
/usr/share/doc/book.ps doesn't need to exist, as long as ./book.ps exists.
However, this doesn't work, tar(1) complains that it can't add
/usr/share/doc/faq.ps. This is unsurprising, as (a) /usr/share/doc/faq.ps
doesn't exist, because I haven't done "make install", and (b) I don't see an
option to tar(1) that lets you prepend a directory component to the start
of all the filenames in the archive.
So I assume that you can only produce packages from files that are
already in the 'right' place in the filesystem, yes?
That being the case, what is the '-s' option to pkg_create(1) for?
N
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