On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:42:51PM +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote: |Late in 2006 Joerg Sonnenberger added support for installation to a |directory DESTDIR: copy files as non-root user to temporary directory |DESTDIR, create binary package from those files and use pkg_add to add |the package to the live system. | |Although I do not remember seeing this explicitly said anywhere, I |always had the impression that the intent of DESTDIR support was to get |away from the current (traditional) method, ie some day in the future |pkgsrc would use DESTDIR installations by default. | |Is this impression correct? Or is "DESTDIR" installation just a |nice-to-have feature and takes second place in importance to the |traditional method? Personally I'd love to be able to create a package in a seperate area and not be required to install in order to package it ... that would make upgrading much much cleaner - you could then decide to commit to replacing packages iff the packages were built properly instead of winding up with a broken system half-way through if it failed. The bulk build area helps, but it's not a fix for the problem by building everything in a sandbox ... -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally mjch%mjch.net@localhost left blank