On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:07:53AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:09:45AM +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.
>
> Yes, PKGDIR is incorrect in this usage. The documented place where
> packages are stored is:
>
> # PACKAGES - A top level directory where all packages go (rather
> than
> # going locally to each port).
> # Default: ${PORTSDIR}/packages
> #
Note that packages are created by 'make package' in *subdirectories*
within this directory, as in the FTP site, i.e. All/, with Latest/,
${CATEGORY}/ links. It would be best to be consistent with that
approach.
Kris
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