Re: destdir: 'make package' inconsistency

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:43:28PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:57:09PM +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> >     A view from the peanut gallery - I was surprised when I found that
> > make package did an install, also irritated when I found that once I had
> > done a make install I couldn't do a make package.
> 
> Can we please don't spread misinformation? You can certainly do
> make package after make install. You cannot run make package after
> make clean.

Which is a mistake that is worked around with pkg_tarup, but which
should be rectified - all of the information to create the binary
package has already been installed and is available, so that the OP
should be able to do what he wanted to do.

Regards,
Alistair