Re: how do I extract in this way....

[Son of Yaardvark <danimal@pobox.com>]

On 9.December.1999 "Brad" chittered like a monkey:
> depending on what is inside opt-1.56.tar.gz you might try a post-extract
> target that moves the contents of it to the foo-1.1.4 dir, but if there is
> a lot of files instead of a root dir or something then you're better off
> having a do-extract target.
[snip]
> >> foo-1.1.4.tar.gz     --extracts to-> /usr/ports/blah/foo/work/foo-1.1.4
> >> opt-1.56.tar.gz needs to be extracted inside of the work/foo-1.1.4
> >> directory, but currently it just goes inside of the work directory.
> >> Is there a way to do this that I have overlooked?  Thanks for your
> >> help.
> >
> >Create your do-extract target doing all the extraction yourself is
> >certainly the best way here...

I got it done via a EXTRACT_ONLY/post-extract method.  I didn't want
to mess with defining my own do-extract as I am still not that
familiar with the ports system.

-danimal

Now it demands disk space, next it will demand sacrifices. 
Then we will know the end is near.