Re: How to skip 'make package' during a package installation?

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:21:27 +0900, Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost> 
wrote:

> Hi, all.
> When I try to install a package, I find that the pkgsrc will
> force me to 'make package' automatically. Because I do not need to
> make a package always, I intend to skip this manually.
> I find that if I added '_USE_DESTDIR=yes' when I type 'make install' will
> accomplish this. But maybe it is not a proper way.
> Is there any 'correct' method to do that?

I assume that you are using PKG_DEVELOPER=yes.
You can back to old style installation with USE_DESTDIR=no.

> Another question: what's the different between 'make package-clean' and
> 'make package-remove'?
> I see such comment in mk/package/bsd.package.mk -

As the comment said, that's all.
You can see the different with doing "make package" after those target.

> It seems that they do the same thing. However, both of them just remove
> the 'real' file under All subdir and do not remove the symlink under the
> category subdir.

It should be fixed.

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