Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 13:04:57 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: "Ganael LAPLANCHE" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USE_LINUX_RPM and PORTDOCS Message-ID: <07923414@ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20080524073145.M76509@martymac.com> (Ganael LAPLANCHE's message of "Sat\, 24 May 2008 10\:08\:56 %2B0200 \(CEST\)") References: <20080524073145.M76509@martymac.com>
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(the topic is emulation@ relevant, added to CC) On Sat, 24 May 2008 10:08:56 +0200 (CEST) Ganael LAPLANCHE wrote: > Hi everybody, > One of my ports, archivers/linux-par2cmdline, uses a RPM that contains > documentation, but does not (yet) handle the NOPORTDOCS option. An error is > generated in Tinderbox and complains that documentation files remain on the > filesystem after deinstallation. See : > http://t64.tecnik93.com/logs/7-STABLE-FTP/linux-par2cmdline-0.4.log > as reported by Itetcu. > My port uses both the USE_LINUX_RPM facility and PORTDOCS variable. > What happens is that passing NOPORTDOCS=yes to the port is ignored by > bsd.linux-rpm.mk's do-install target which installs documentation anyway (as any > other file). As I have also declared documentation files with the PORTDOCS > variable, they are *not* deinstalled when using NOPORTDOCS=yes. > So, I am a bit stuck since bsd.linux-rpm.mk does not seem to provide a way to > handle that case... > I see two options : > - Override the do-install target and do things manually, which seems a bad idea > since several actions are involved in installing linux files (brandelf, cpio, ...) > - Do not use PORTDOCS option anymore and treat doc files as any other file, but > this implies installing documentation files even if it has not been requested by > the user. I could even use AUTOMATIC_PLIST for that... > What would be the best option ? Would you have any other idea ? I'd suggest another option. What about fixing bsd.linux-rpm.mk? Ex., one may introduce, say, a pre-install target (or even do it at the very beginning of a do-install stage) and conditionally delete unneeded files from WRKDIR (so they won't get installed at do-install stage). -- WBR, bsam
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