Re: empty packages

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:22:45PM +0200, Nick Nauwelaerts wrote:
> On Sun, 05 May 2002 21:31:51 +0200
> Michael Agbaglo <byteshifter@shifted-bytes.de> wrote:
> 
> > just about building my first ports and although they install w/o any 
> >   problems they are crap:
> > 
> > 
> > # tar xvfz p5-Archive-Zip-1.00.tgz
> > +CONTENTS
> > +COMMENT
> > +DESC
> 
> And in addition to what the others have already said: I've gotten this
> problem with my first port as well. My guess is that it uses cp instead
> of install. Check the Makefile of the program to make sure. Recently
> there have been changes to bsd.port.mk to make sure it does not install
> any files outside of the fake dir, but these aren't in version 1.515
> that you seem to use. Also, I have no idea if it will catch if the port
> copies files instead of installing them.

They're also not activated by default, for various reasons, including
that remounting file systems with such a big frequency may fuck things
up, including panicking naddy's box.

DESTDIR is not strictly necessary for fake to work.
One can also manage to configure the port with 
--prefix='${DESTDIR}/usr/local' for some old gnu software,
and it's possible to override ANY variable in a Makefile on the
command line.

This is explained in http://www.openbsd.org/porting/diffs.html
which is part of the porting documentation that every porter should read.