Thank you ben! you have no idea how helpful the make and makeplist was for me :) the issues was not with my Makefile but rather that I did not understand what roll the pkg-plist had in the do-install process. I’m all good now and my updated hadoop2 builds and install …
Now I just need to figure how I can get this sent to upstream after some testing on my end. > On Jan 8, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Ben Woods <woods...@gmail.com> wrote: > > First off, since this is your first attempt to update a port, welcome! There > may be a slight hurdle to get over to understanding port basics, but once you > get there it is quite rewarding. > > This resource is priceless, read it and refer back to it often: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html > <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html> > > Also, the great thing about ports is you can read all of the shell scripts > that are doing the work if you don't understand something (such as > copytree_share), by grepping through the files here: > /usr/ports/Mk/ > > Lastly, the mailing lists do not have the formatting features of the forums, > so no need for the [FILE][/FILE] stuff. > > I would say the most obvious thing for your port is the need to update the > pkg-plist file which lists ever file your port will install on the system. > Easy way to test this with your updated port is to do the following: > # cd PORTDIR > # make clean > # make > # make makeplist > > That will dump the new plist to the console standard output, but doesn't > actually update the pkg-plist for you (you have to do that by redirecting the > output to the file). But note, you need to follow the instructions of the > first line (delete the first line, and check the output of the rest of the > file looks reasonable). I would redirect the output to a new plist file and > compare the difference before overwriting the main plist file: > # make makeplist > pkg-plist.new > # diff -u pkg-plist pkg-plist.new > > Good luck! > > > -- > > -- > From: Benjamin Woods > woods...@gmail.com <mailto:woods...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
