Danek Duvall wrote:
> I was toying with pkgsend and a couple of non-relocatable SVr4 packages
> recently, and thought about fixing a couple of bugs. One thing that
> occurred to me was that the current output of pkgsend generate against an
> SVr4 package isn't especially useful. Specifically, the path to the source
> file on disk (the action "hash") is emitted relative to the "reloc"
> directory. This is okay if you only have relocatable packages, and you can
> publish your manifest pointing at the reloc directory as the proto area,
> but if you have files coming from both the relocatable area ("reloc") and
> the non-relocatable area ("root"), then it's useless.
>
> It's pretty straightforward to emit the path of the files relative to the
> parent directory of the package itself, so you get
>
> file SUNWfoo/reloc/bin/something path=opt/foo/bin/something mode=...
> file SUNWfoo/root/etc/foo.conf path=etc/foo.conf mode=...
>
> Clearly this is meaningless with faspac'ed or datastream packages, but for
> everything else, it makes some amount of sense.
>
> Thoughts?
This might be
17769 SVR4 conversion assumes BASEDIR is prepended to source
Danek
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