Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 19:58:33 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Package creation, installing in a different place Message-ID: <19990516195833.B75287@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Hi folks,
I'm not sure if -ports is the right place to ask this question. Pointers
to better lists accepted.
I'm trying to build a FreeBSD package using pkg_create(1), and I'm trying
to do this outside of the ports system.
Suppose I have /tmp/foo.ps, and I want to package this in to foo.tgz.
When the user runs "pkg_add foo.tgz", "foo.ps" should be installed
in to /usr/local/share/foo/foo.ps.
However, on my system, I'm building the package from /tmp, and
/usr/local/share/foo doesn't exist. I don't want to have to copy foo.ps
in to /usr/local/share/foo before I build the package.
Can I do this? After spending some time experimenting with pkg_create,
I don't think I can. It looks as though it expects the package to be
created from an installed version of the file, rather than from a version
in a staging area.
I'd expected to be able to do something like
% pwd
/tmp
% ls
foo.ps
% cat PLIST
@name Foo (Postscript)
@srcdir .
@cwd /usr/local/share/foo
foo.ps
% pkg_create -c "-Foo" -d "-Foo" -f PLIST foo
and have it create foo.tgz. But it fails with
tar: can't add file foo.ps : No such file or directory
Any ideas?
N
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