Re: What does the "WRKOBJDIR" variable do?

["Rakhesh Sasidharan" <rakheshster%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thank you Klaus. :)

> If that is not possible or undesirable (pkgsrc tree shared read-only over
> NFS is the most common case) a directory where you can create work
> directories is needed, so just define
>
>   WRKOBJDIR=/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj
>
> in your /etc/mk.conf and the directory where the source is extracted and
> other files can be created will be
>
>   /somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj/mail/spamassassin/work

What happens if I define "WRKDIR=/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj"? I was
under the impression setting WRKDIR to "/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj" is
what will have the source extracted and other files created in
"/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj/mail/spamassassin/work". Turns out I might
have understood it wrong ...

> If WRKOBJDIR is defined and your pkgsrc tree is writable you get a
> symbolic link to the actual WRKDIR.

Assuming "WRKOBJDIR=/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj" and pkgsrc tree is
writeable, then "/somewhere/else/pkgsrc-obj/mail/spamassassin/work/"
will be a symbolic link to "/path/to/pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin/work/"
eh? So if pkgsrc is writeable, then there's no real advantage of
setting WRKOBJDIR ...

Rakhesh

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