Subject: Re: pkgsrc/$pkg/work/.install_done considered harmful?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/02/2003 13:00:23
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> Quoting Luke Mewburn (lukem@netbsd.org):
> > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:48:29AM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> ..
> >   | I mount /usr/pkgsrc/ on another machine that's NOT the build
> >   | machine.  I remove the .install_done and run "make"
> >
> > Or you could just do "make package", and then copy the resulting
> > binary package to the target machine(s) and pkg_add that...
>
> And figure out all the dependencies it added.  Easy enough to
> work around.
>
> >   | While we're here, it would be neat if the work/ directory
> >   | were architecture noted:  work-sparc/  !=  work-i386 and
> >   | it'd be neat to have one tree.
> >
> > mk.conf(5)'s OBJHOSTNAME does a similar thing;
> > if set, pkgsrc uses "work.`hostname`" instead of "work".
>
> Cool, thanks.  May poke at creating ${OBJSYSTEMTYPE} along the
> same lines.

And what would that do different than ${OBJMACHINE}?

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Frederick