Brooks Davis wrote:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:14:08PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:55:20PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:37:50PM -0600, John E Hein wrote:
The hard part is to get ports writers to think the right way about
DESTDIR after ignoring it for so many years. And once you decide to
go about fixing it, there's no way around that problem.
My preferred solution involves a couple of shell commands, along the
lines of the following:
mount_nullfs ${PORTSDIR} ${DESTDIR}${PORTSDIR}
mount_nullfs ${WRKDIR} ${DESTDIR}${WRKDIR}
mount_devfs foo ${DESTDIR}/dev
chroot ${DESTDIR} cd ${.CURDIR} && make install
A suitable version of the above should allow all ports to be installed
into a jail-ready filesystem hierarchy, while requiring 0 port
changes.
Kris
This makes sense, but I did not succeed to use mount_nullfs on an
5.3-RELEASE/amd64 machine, while the same worked well on my 6.1/i386
computer, so I'm not sure mount_nullfs is reliable enough on older
systems.
Who cares about old systems that are already unsupported and will only
become even more unsupported over time? Nullfs works in 6.x and will
continue to work in the future (since I use it extensively and yell at
whoever breaks it ;-)
Also, other targets should be supported as well, and the nullmounted
directory should be umounted after he run. Anyway, I find this solution
very good, if we can work this out a bit better, my progress so far
would become pointless...
It's a shame to throw away your work, but IMO it would also be a
bigger shame not to proceed if a simpler solution can be made to work.
Kris
Agreed. I just feel a bit guilty, since I made things complicated and
obscure, while I just want to provide a good solution, but haven't
thought of mount_nullfs.
The one advantage I can see for a more complex DESTDIR solution is
dealing with cross builds. I suspect that it would be easier to handle
them with DESTDIR, but that's only intuition. (Obviously, not all ports
can be easily cross built, but as embedded becomes more important to the
project we need to start thinking about it for the ones that can be).
-- Brooks
Oh, yes. I have also thought of cross-building with DESTDIR. And there
is a PR assigned to portmgr that requests a new feature, a plist make
target. Plists could also be generated with installing into a temporary
DESTDIR environment.
--
Cheers,
Gabor
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