Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:31:16 -0600 From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20601: DESTDIR and /etc/shells Message-ID: <15237.30244.936932.928537@brain.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <20010823133038.A99713@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200108231510.f7NFA2A96921@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010823172108.B2573@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010823133038.A99713@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote at 13:30 -0700 on Aug 23: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:21:09PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > It's pretty obvious that a large number of ports will not support > > DESTDIR immediately after the change. However, I do believe it's > > something we must have. If I do some testing locally, can we move > > forward with this a week after 4.4-RELEASE is out the door? > > It's pretty hard for us to move forward with any nontrivial changes > without the ability to test them in a package build. This is a major > outstanding problem..perhaps we can just take over bento for a week or > two and get some of the backlog sorted out. I'm curious... does the package building process for releases define DESTDIR to something other than "" or /? If not, then the patch in 28155 should be completely trivial. However, it certainly LOOKS complicated enough to be non-trivial. And I completely understand the concerns people have with the wide-ranging effects of changing bsd.port.mk and the care that should be taken before doing this. Being the author of the patch, I just though I'd attempt to throw in a little reassurance that IF DESTDIR is currently not being used to build packages for the release, this patch should be a no-op. Of course, if DESTDIR IS currently being used to build packages for the release CDs, then many packages are probably broken anyway in at least some minor ways (as in the example in ports/28155). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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