pkgtools/rc.subr doesn't honour the RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR optionE

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-degen%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On a LMDE2 system with pkgsrc bootstrapped as --unprivileged (maybe
that is the reason?) I want the package to be installed in
/home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d, not the canonical /etc/rc.cd

So:


$ ~/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr $
RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR=/home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d bmake install

===> Skipping vulnerability checks.
WARNING: No /home/oc/pkg/pkgdb/pkg-vulnerabilities file found.
WARNING: To fix run: `/home/oc/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin -K
/home/oc/pkg/pkgdb fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities'.
===> Installing dependencies for rc.subr-20171024
==========================================================================
The following variables will affect the build process of this package,
rc.subr-20171024.  Their current value is shown below:

        * RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR = /home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d

You may want to abort the process now with CTRL-C and change their value
before continuing.  Be sure to run `/home/oc/pkg/bin/bmake clean' after
the changes.
==========================================================================
=> Build dependency cwrappers>=20150314: found cwrappers-20171108
===> Overriding tools for rc.subr-20171024
===> Extracting for rc.subr-20171024
/bin/cp -R /home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/files
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024
===> Patching for rc.subr-20171024
===> Creating toolchain wrappers for rc.subr-20171024
===> Installing for rc.subr-20171024
=> Creating installation directories
/usr/bin/install -c -o oc -g oc -m 644
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024/rc.conf.example
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.destdir/etc/rc.conf.example
/usr/bin/install -c -o oc -g oc -m 644
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024/rc.subr
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.destdir/etc/rc.subr
/usr/bin/install -c -o oc -g oc -m 755
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024/rc.d/DAEMON
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.destdir//home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d
/usr/bin/install -c -o oc -g oc -m 755
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024/rc.d/LOGIN
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.destdir//home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d
/usr/bin/install -c -o oc -g oc -m 755
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024/rc.d/NETWORKING
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.destdir//home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d
/usr/bin/install -c -o oc -g oc -m 755
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/rc.subr-20171024/rc.d/SERVERS
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.destdir//home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d
=> Automatic manual page handling
=> Creating binary package
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr/work/.packages/rc.subr-20171024.tgz
===> Building binary package for rc.subr-20171024
=> Creating binary package
/home/oc/pkgsrc-current/packages/All/rc.subr-20171024.tgz
===> Installing binary package of rc.subr-20171024
pkg_add: Failed to write etc/rc.conf.example for rc.subr-20171024:
Can't create 'etc/rc.conf.example'
pkg_add: Couldn't remove //etc/rc.conf.example
pkg_add: Couldn't remove //etc/rc.subr
pkg_add: Couldn't remove //home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d/DAEMON
pkg_add: Couldn't remove //home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d/LOGIN
pkg_add: Couldn't remove //home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d/NETWORKING
pkg_add: Couldn't remove //home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d/SERVERS
Executing `/bin/rmdir '/'/home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d 2> /dev/null || true'
pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake[2]: stopped in /home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake[1]: stopped in /home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /home/oc/pkgsrc-current/pkgtools/rc.subr

Premaking the directory /home/oc/pkg/etc/rc.d doesn't seem to make a difference.

I guess I could try using "sudo bmake install" but that would not cure
the issue. Or maybe I have misunderstood the meaning of the above
mentioned option.

I got the ideal from this article:
https://github.com/agjohnson/ohess-blog/blob/master/pub/using-pkgsrc-on-debian-squeeze.rst


-- 
Ottavio Caruso