Gábor’s Blog

Today I’ve been working on my Gentoo ports. Alexander suggested to rename these ports since these are complete Linux distributions rather than linux_base ports and don’t actually suit our ports infrastructure, so I’ll rename them to linux_dist-gentoo-stage[123] introducing this new kind of Linux ports. I’d like to keep the old behaviour as well, thus this change needed a lot of work. Furthermore, I’ve changed to static plist, so these patches are very huge. I haven’t submitted them yet, because I’ll do a lot of testing before. After this, I really have to move on with DESTDIR.

So, I have good results, my DESTDIR implementation has proven to work with the simplest ports. I mean ports without USE_* that don’t install files via [pre|do|post]-install target and have a standard configure and/or make script, e.g. net/csup or security/chroot_safe. I haven’t tested ports with dependencies, but that will be the next step. Here’s an example log:

[root@spitfire /usr/ports/net/csup]# make DESTDIR=/bla install

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If you want a patch, here it is, but note that this is very-very-very experimental, use it for your own risk! Any feedback appreciated.