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authorBaptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>2013-09-23 05:56:35 +0000
committerBaptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>2013-09-23 05:56:35 +0000
commitcf099c77fa91d51ada2a4384e8765d9fd06acab3 (patch)
tree5e4565f93a0d1185f039cd8526ef6a8bf342699e /CHANGES
parentAdd a new PERL_MANDIR substitution pattern to PLIST_SUB to easier staging p5-... (diff)
Add support for staging area in the ports tree
The ports tree is now staged by default. With pkgng the sequence hasn't changed, the main difference is that creating package is now independent from installing it. With pkg_install, the package is now created first and make install, do install the package. New macros: - STAGEDIR: PATH to the directory where the port will be staged. - NO_STAGE: Keep the old behaviour of the ports tree (aka no staging area) Unsupported macro if NO_STAGE is not set: - MAN* with staging man page compression and handling of hardlinks and symlinks is automatically done in the stage. the manpages becomes then a "normal" plist files and should be tracked in pkg-plist. - MANCOMPRESSED the compress-man target is able to only compress when it needed. New target: - stage: this installs everything into the stage directory - makeplist: this will create a pkg-plist and print it to stdout. This is a sample plist and it should always be _reviewed_ not directly used. NOTE: with staging only what is in the plist will be installed, nothing more, meaning a port staged cannot have leftovers exect directories left. It is really important to double check the pkg-plist to make sure all the files the maintainer want to package are in! make makeplist can help in that area. The goal is to handle as quickly as possible a full removal of the NO_STAGE support. More features can be added once the full ports tree is converted to using the staging area Conversion notes: - Remove NO_STAGE - in {pre,do,post}-install * Before any usage of ${PREFIX}, ${ETCDIR}, ${PORTSDIR}, ${PORTEXAMPLES} prepend ${STAGEDIR} * Remove any thing that is done by @exec or +INSTALL script it will be done automatically when syncing packages * Remove any code to show PKG-MESSAGE it will be done automatically when syncing packages * Directory creation should remain in post-install (in particular because pkgng doesn't work like pkg_install in that area and pkgng ignores the @exec mkdir but directly pack the directory even if empty) - PORTDOCS/PORTEXAMPELS To support PORTDOCS, PORTEXAMPLES most of the time there is no more need for hacks. just add the right %%PORTDOCS%% or %%PORTEXAMPLES%% in your plist then the given files from the stagedir will or will not sync according to NOPORTDOCS and NOPORTEXAMPLES. With hat: portmgr Reviewed by: bdrewery
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@@ -10,6 +10,35 @@ in the release notes and/or placed into UPDATING.
All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.
+20130923:
+AUTHOT: bapt@FreeBSD.org
+
+ The ports tree is now staged by default. With pkgng the sequence hasn't
+ changed, the main difference is that creating package is now independent
+ from installing it. With pkg_install, the package is now created first
+ and make install, do install the package.
+
+ New macros:
+ - STAGEDIR: PATH to the directory where the port will be staged.
+ - NO_STAGE: Keep the old behaviour of the ports tree (aka no staging area)
+
+ Unsupported macro if NO_STAGE is not set:
+ - MAN* with staging man page compression and handling of hardlinks and
+ symlinks is automatically done in the stage. the manpages becomes then a
+ "normal" plist files and should be tracked in pkg-plist.
+ - MANCOMPRESSED the compress-man target is able to only compress when it
+ needed.
+
+ New target:
+ - stage: this installs everything into the stage directory
+ - makeplist: this will create a pkg-plist and print it to stdout. This is
+ a sample plist and it should always be _reviewed_ not directly used.
+
+ NOTE: with staging only what is in the plist will be installed, nothing more,
+ meaning a port staged cannot have leftovers exect directories left. It is
+ really important to double check the pkg-plist to make sure all the files
+ the maintainer want to package are in! make makeplist can help in that area.
+
20130920:
AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org