Re: pkg/45136 ([MAINTAINER][PATCH] www/aws, fix DESTDIR breakage and other problems)

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45136; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, 
pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/45136 ([MAINTAINER][PATCH] www/aws, fix DESTDIR breakage
 and other problems)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:18:38 +0200

 On 7/28/2011 4:40 AM, David Holland wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/45136; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/45136 ([MAINTAINER][PATCH] www/aws, fix DESTDIR breakage and
 >  other problems)
 > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:36:41 +0000
 > 
 >  
 >  Being able to detect PLIST conflicts before it's too late is also
 >  worthwhile.
 >  
 >  And, one of the things that goes wrong sometimes is that destdir
 >  support turns out to be partial, so some files get installed to the
 >  destdir and some straight to /usr/pkg. Then the package appears to
 >  work fine... but if you pkg_tarup it or build a binary package and use
 >  that on another machine, it ends up being incomplete. This tends to
 >  interact poorly with the way many people handle production systems
 >  (build and test on a crash machine, then apply the binary package to
 >  the production machine) so we don't want to let it happen.
 >  
 >   >  to close
 >   >  out this tested iteration?  On the next update, I can move some of these
 >   >  into a static PLIST (PLIST + GENERATE_PLIST = complete PLIST?)
 >  
 >  If it were me I'd probably go stuff in all the plist vars, but
 >  sometimes it really isn't worth it.
 >  
 >  -- 
 >  David A. Holland
 >  dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
 >  
 
 M.Drochner removed the stale PLIST a couple of weeks ago, so the actual
 PR can be closed I think.  I'll consider these comments when it's time
 to update the Ada Web Server in a few months, thanks.
 
 John