Yo Achim! On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:19:00 +0100 Achim Gratz via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller via devel writes:
> > Whoa! Hold up right there. waf has absolutely nothing to do with
> > #1 above in any binary distro. To prepare a package for a binary
> > distro the maintainer actually does a #3, then puts the binaries,
> > man pages, config files, etc. into a distro spacific package file.
>
> Not in my world, but that doesn't mean such things wouldn't exist.
Well then, how about you explain how your world works?
> Practically all build systems I'm familiar with do a "system install",
> but point the root of that install to some empty space via DESTDIR.
I'm confused. To me, if you use --prefix, or DESTDIR, then you are
explicitly NOT doing a system install. A system install MUST go
in /usr, per the FHS, and your DESTDIR is preventing that. So now
you are a #3.
> Years ago (IIRC, I believe) someone wanted to get rid of DESTDIR by
> using an overlay mount of some sort to capture the transactions on one
> system to play it back on another, but that went nowhere I can find.
Lots of ways to do that. virtualenv, etc. Pretty common.
> But that general idea is pretty much alive in the VM and
> containerisation space.
Yup, them to.
> > We need it because when the maintainer builds a binary package he
> > first does a #3 (local install.
>
> I'd be curious to see such a system because I can't even begin to
> understand how it would work in reality.
Uh, I think you just described it above, with DESTDIR. Also, Hal
has been working this week on doing installs in his user home
directory. So start by asking Hal.
RGDS
GARY
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