On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:34:31PM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > I am trying to create a package without first having a port, but I'm finding > it really hard. > > Firstly, the pkg MANIFEST format isn't well documented. For example:
That's on my TODO list to bring the documentation for MANIFEST into a complete
one
>
> 1. What is the syntax of "deps" when I want to depend on Java, but not
> specify the version? I've tried this:
>
> deps:
> javavmwrapper: {origin: java/javavmwrapper}
Here name and version are mandatory, this is to allow pkg add (used by the ports
tree, tinderbox and pointyhat) to be able to look at a package around the
package you want to install when doing pkg add ./yourpkg.txz it will try to get
./javawrapper-version.txz if exists.
Compatibility needed.
>
> but this is ignored with a warning.
>
>
> 2. Everything under "files:" and "directories:" appears to have full paths
> from root. If that is the case, how does the system adjust to a user's own
> choice of prefix? And what is the point of the "prefix:" option earlier in
> the MANIFEST?
>
> 3. I see packages with this syntax:
>
> directories:
> /var/db/something: y
>
> What does the "y" mean?
>
y == try to delete while n == to no try.
meaning when pkg delete is called when it tries to remove the /var/db/something
if it fails and 'y' was given then it will not output a warning. But if 'n' was
given then it will warn about it.
>
>
> Secondly, I am confused by the tar packaging itself. It appears that my
> package only works if I build it using
>
> tar Pf packge.tar /
Why are you trying to pack using tar and not pkg create directly?
>
> Is the correct way to chroot to a folder, assemble all the files relative to
> root and then tar in this way? Again, why doesn't pkg cope with relative tar
> pathing? Isn't that the whole point of 'prefix'?
Not at all package without prefix is broken by design because 90% of the
binaries will have hardcoded prefix. To install respecting chroot just pkg -c
/mychroot/ install mypkg
regards,
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