Re: Preserving binary packages

["OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:42:31 +0900, Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:34:27AM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> > > [...] so that I can type "make install" and have a binary package built
> > > for every pre-req package and the package itself.
> > But isn't that the case only since some ``recent'' changes (i.e. default
> > DESTDIR support)?
> > Hm, I'm talking to AGC, so I must be overlooking something, but wouldn't
> > 	DEPENDS_TARGET= package-install
> > almost do what you want?
>
> Almost - it does the dependencies just fine (and I checked before I
> went out of my way to provide a definition that would placate both
> sides) - but it doesn't do the package you're building.  Which may
> well have been deleted, not preserved, after many hours of building on
> an embedded platform.  Not the type of thing that I want to see happen
> to anyone.

It also had been fixed.
DEPENDS_TARGET was always set as "package-install" with USE_DESTDIR=yes.
After the fix, it is same as USE_DESTDIR=no behaviour.
If you did "make pacage-install", DEPENDS_TARGET=package-install by default.
If you just did "make install", DEPENDS_TARGET=install by default.
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