On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:45:53PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:44:13PM +0200, G??bor K??vesd??n wrote: > > > >>I think the solution proposed in PR/100555 is overengineered. Why not > > >>to build temporary binary package as usually and then use chroot(8) > > >>(or -C flag for pkg_install) to install it into DESTDIR environment? > > >>This would be *much* simpler approach and it won't require modifying > > >>anything but bsd.port.mk. Putting additional load on port maintainers > > >>on keeping their ports DESTDIR-clean is too much for such a niche > > >>feature. > > > > > >Just to make clean: what I am proposing is the following course of > > >actions when DESTDIR is defined: > > > > > >1. Build port as usually. Install it as usually. > > > > > >2. After usual installation is complete build temporary binary package > > >out of it and install it into DESTDIR environment. > > > > > >Automating it would require some amount of work, granted, but it would > > >be one time task, not constant burden on port maintainers. > > > > > >-Maxim > > I don't think it would be good, since: > > > > 1, The package building requires that the package be installed first, > > and we don't want to make the host environment dirty in such way. > > I think this should be fixed. Nobody else requires package to be installed > first.
It's probably an enormous task, but please feel free to work on it. Kris
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