Subject: Re: automatic make package ?
To: Tracy Di Marco White <netbsd@gendalia.org>
From: Dr. Rene Hexel <rh@cit.gu.edu.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/30/2002 13:25:24
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 10:17, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
> This makes it look like the default when doing make update is update,
> not install, while the default target for UPDATE_TARGET looks like it
> is install.
You can set either UPDATE_TARGET or DEPENDS_TARGET. If you set
DEPENDS_TARGET to something other than "update" (the default for 'make
update'), this will apply to all packages the current one depends upon
and you lose the advantage of of a recursive 'make update'. Therefore,
it is usually better to set
UPDATE_TARGET=package
(or "bin-install" if you trust your existing binary packages) to
create packages when needed, not DEPENDS_TARGET. It seems like
Packages.txt would need some clarification here (I will look into this
right away).
Cheers
,
Rene