On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:09 +0200, Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> Hi Florent,
>
> PKGDIR is ambiguous in the context of ports and packages.
>
> I set PKGDIR=/some/where/my/pkg in my /etc/profile which causes the
> ports to fail badly creating any packages:
>
> It is used in ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:
> # PKGDIR - A directory containing any package creation
> # files.
> # Default: ${MASTERDIR}
> [...]
> PKGDIR?= ${MASTERDIR}
>
> Havin set PKGDIR statically is a very bad idea here.Agreed, the name isn't really well-suited. I seem to recall I've been advised to use that name because it had the same meaning in ports. I'm not really sure about that anymore. PKG_CACHEDIR would probably be better. > PS: I've googled around^W^Wused Google to search the web but it seems > there was no bugreport about this? Bug or feature? Not everything happen via PR. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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