Re: Unable to ci wip/Makefile

[Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 8/16/05, Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 8/16/05, Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > While doing the work on vtwm, in one of the initial versions I had,
> > before I discovered
> > url2pkg, I had borrowed the Makefile from wm/tvtwm and also used ports2pkg 
> > as
> > a FreeBSD port already existed.
> >
> > In one of those, I can't remember which one it was, I had set the
> > PKGNAME to vtwm
> > while the DISTNAME was vtwm-5.4.7.  While doing a make, the build was 
> > trying to
> > cd to work/vtwm which didn't exist, instead of work/vtwm-5.4.7,  since
> > vtwm untars into
> >  vtwm-5.4.7.
> >
> > Based on that experience, I was trying to be careful and make sure that the
> > build worked correctly, even if I had PKGNAME set to something
> > diffrent then DISTNAME.
> 
> It's strange, because bsd.pkg.mk does not do that anywhere.
> 

Doing cvs diff on bsd.pkg.mk does not give any diffrences at all.

> > What I was trying to do by setting the PKGNAME was to get the following 
> > effect:
> >
> >      prompt# pkg_add vtwm
> >
> > rather then having to do
> >
> >     prompt# pkg_add vtwm-5.4.7
> >
> > Is this incorrect behaviour for NetBSD/pkgsrc ?
> 
> No.  This is something specific to the binary tools, not to the package.
> With pkgsrc's pkg_install, any of pkg_add {vtwm,vtwm-5.4.7,vtwm-5.4.7.tgz}
> will work... even from remote locations!  If you do not specify a version
> pkg_add will automatically pick up the latest one.
> 

Ah! That was something I was not aware of.  Thanks.

cheers,

       mehul

-- 
Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi%gmail.com@localhost


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