rillig
905959284d
Added an example section to the "creating a package" chapter, which
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explains how I created a nontrivial package, www/nvu. It includes many
pitfalls that have never been documented before.
2006-10-21 20:39:24 +00:00
rillig
f38c98f181
Reindented to have more text per line.
2006-10-21 11:58:18 +00:00
rillig
8711fc9d43
Reworded to make reading easier.
2006-10-21 11:57:11 +00:00
ben
418b77a193
Update the PostgreSQL versions referenced in buildlink.xml
2006-10-18 03:06:14 +00:00
wiz
1f540ae4b1
English improvement.
2006-10-13 21:21:11 +00:00
yyamano
20b5793e85
We don't have a list of licenses in pkgsrc/mk/defaults/mk.conf anymore.
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Pointed out by kano@.
2006-10-11 14:32:56 +00:00
rillig
ec77758bec
Some package's self-tests require a lot of high-quality random data, so
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the bulk build may seem to hang on otherwise idle machines.
2006-10-09 22:08:41 +00:00
mishka
c2aaeefffb
Add documentation for MASTER_SORT_RANDOM variable.
2006-10-09 13:15:07 +00:00
rillig
cc6b1b76a7
Stated some major goals of pkgsrc:
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- high quality of the generated packages
- platform independence, portability
- uniform look and feel on all platforms
Feel free to add you own goals.
2006-10-07 09:31:16 +00:00
rillig
b4f2c7b318
Changed to htdocs-share-20061007.tar.gz.
2006-10-07 09:29:48 +00:00
rillig
97a56aa9d3
Changed to the current htdocs-share archive. Added a target to regenerate
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the archive, since that has been undocumented up to now.
2006-10-07 09:29:19 +00:00
rillig
c482c67daf
Minor rewording.
2006-10-07 01:24:00 +00:00
rillig
5df3ea2a0b
KDE packages should make use of meta-pkgs/kde3/kde3.mk.
2006-10-06 18:12:48 +00:00
wiz
e329b5ac78
Four root directories for pkgsrc, not three.
2006-10-02 17:56:27 +00:00
rillig
5c76cf883b
After editing the package Makefile, it is usually necessary to run
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"bmake clean".
The url2pkg program can create packages for Perl modules almost
completely.
2006-10-02 16:52:22 +00:00
rillig
28dbf6e215
Added the default values for the four root directories of pkgsrc.
2006-10-02 16:37:47 +00:00
rillig
18f01f78ce
Not all tar(1)s know the -z option.
2006-09-25 09:45:31 +00:00
rillig
462adfe965
Added a new chapter to the pkgsrc user's guide, which describes the file
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system layout of pkgsrc.
2006-09-19 17:50:38 +00:00
rillig
786378f1fa
Replaced "regenerate" with "regen" to save me from typing too much.
2006-09-18 22:36:48 +00:00
rillig
02676731f9
Added an FAQ entry for the "Makefile appears to contain unresolved
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cvs/rcs/??? merge conflicts" error message.
2006-09-18 22:27:54 +00:00
rillig
1078f659ea
Moved the section "selecting the compiler" from the chapter "using" to
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"configuring".
2006-09-18 13:25:37 +00:00
rillig
a2111ba288
Provided an introduction to configuring pkgsrc.
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Removed the link to the "undefined reference" section in the developer's
guide, since that kind of problem is not expected to be solved in
mk.conf.
2006-09-18 12:52:20 +00:00
rillig
2e8a716cd1
Small improvements of the wording. Mentioned that on mirrors, the base
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directory may be different from /pub/pkgsrc.
2006-09-18 12:16:25 +00:00
ben
69b869594b
By request of Thomas, document some Darwin details.
2006-09-17 23:55:28 +00:00
jmmv
4e66ee8957
Clarify where gtk-doc documentation should be installed to match current
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practices in pkgsrc.
2006-09-17 15:48:45 +00:00
wiz
5f8206d726
Use &cprompt;. Do not mention not-existing INET_COUNTRY.
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Describe MASTER_SORT and MASTER_SORT_REGEX.
2006-09-13 23:39:07 +00:00
wiz
560966e88a
Document BATCH. Undocument deprecated BUILD_USES_MSGFMT.
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Document OSVERSION_SPECIFIC.
2006-09-13 23:38:21 +00:00
wiz
78a87435f0
Document LDFLAGS.
2006-09-13 23:36:47 +00:00
wiz
664c8c8551
Use &cprompt;
2006-09-13 23:34:05 +00:00
wiz
ebbf34a05d
Use &rprompt;
2006-09-13 23:33:18 +00:00
wiz
5c12ffda83
Remove section about "Commonly used abbreviations" -- the only cited
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abbreviation isn't used at all in the guide.
2006-09-13 23:31:15 +00:00
wiz
3cb7fe02d4
Use &cprompt;
2006-09-13 23:30:15 +00:00
wiz
4fb56e683e
Use &cprompt; and &rprompt;
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Add section for people with too much time on their hands.
2006-09-13 23:27:31 +00:00
wiz
b5e337f013
Use documented 'make makedistinfo' instead of undocumented 'make makesum'
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in example.
2006-09-13 23:26:21 +00:00
wiz
e627f00107
Reindent, slight improvements.
2006-09-13 23:25:14 +00:00
wiz
55b4f7a9bf
Document MANCOMPRESSED_IF_MANZ.
2006-09-13 23:24:40 +00:00
wiz
14a42c23d7
Describe valid values for MOTIF_TYPE.
2006-09-13 23:23:39 +00:00
wiz
60507078b9
Improve markup. Describe MASTER_SITE_BACKUP and MASTER_SITE_LOCAL.
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Document NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES. Describe "The package phase".
Add section about "Cleaning up". Document DEPENDS_TARGET.
Document the bin-install target. Improve UPDATE_TARGET description.
Use &rprompt; and &cprompt; instead of <prompt>.</prompt>.
Document replace and index targets.
Reindent and break lines for 80 characters.
2006-09-13 23:23:00 +00:00
wiz
06cbeb626e
It seems that the contents of <screen> should start in the first column
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for consistency. Make it so.
2006-09-10 19:51:49 +00:00
wiz
6206c1ab29
Remove accidental extra character.
2006-09-10 19:36:41 +00:00
wiz
1e1f4b6ed9
Fix typo in markup.
2006-09-10 19:36:31 +00:00
wiz
e1a5d0b9a3
Avoid extra whitespace in <para>.
2006-09-10 19:32:22 +00:00
wiz
77bca65f1d
Document PLIST_SRC default. Avoid extra whitespace in <para>.
2006-09-10 19:31:42 +00:00
wiz
a565f838bd
Avoid extra whitespace in <para>. Use more macros.
2006-09-10 19:30:56 +00:00
wiz
5b54bade7b
Describe INSTALL_FILE and DEINSTALL_FILE. Improve introduction.
2006-09-10 19:29:52 +00:00
wiz
7935298a80
Remove extra whitespace in <para>.
2006-09-10 19:27:59 +00:00
wiz
b6e19a3259
Document PKGNAME_NOREV. Use more markup. Improve DIST_SUBDIR
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description. Add section about programming languages. Describe
UNLIMIT_RESOURCES. Avoid extra whitespace in <para>.
Add section about emulation packages.
Add section about BROKEN and BROKEN_IN.
2006-09-10 19:27:34 +00:00
wiz
d9e85ef31d
Document SVR4_PKGNAME; improve pkgdiff description; document
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PATCHDIR, default setting of MESSAGE_SUBST, and FILESDIR.
Reindent.
2006-09-10 19:11:15 +00:00
wiz
8734183fc9
Whitespace cleanups.
2006-09-09 23:49:08 +00:00
wiz
707c77d465
Document ALLFILES, reindent a bit.
2006-09-09 23:47:40 +00:00
wiz
67ce634bfb
No whitespace directly after to <para>.
2006-09-09 23:40:40 +00:00
obache
60f2f07996
Rename variable MAKEFILE to MAKE_FILE.
2006-09-09 04:21:30 +00:00
rillig
d8d62fd65d
Added a reference to NetBSD's send-pr web page, for pkgsrc users that
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don't have send-pr in their base system.
Fixes part of PR 34493.
2006-09-08 07:38:37 +00:00
jmmv
6600e38302
Remove part of a sentence that does not make sense from the new "hicolor theme"
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section. Found by wiz@.
2006-09-03 10:54:55 +00:00
wiz
f146b31eac
Fix a typo.
2006-09-03 00:20:49 +00:00
schwarz
1168666396
fix spelling
2006-09-02 11:26:16 +00:00
jmmv
f7dff82948
Add some more GNOME-specific packaging and porting information:
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- Document how to handle .desktop files.
- Document how to handle icons for the hicolor theme.
- Add a chapter detailing the GNOME meta packages, the packaging of new
applications and the updatee procedure.
Also add some documentation on how to better handle and create patches.
2006-09-01 16:35:38 +00:00
schmonz
27579dfb14
Minimalist update for case-sensitive HFS+ support on Darwin. This
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section needs to be internally reorganized.
2006-08-30 04:47:16 +00:00
schmonz
ad64f51cb9
s/ufsdiskimage/darwindiskimage/g as the script's been renamed.
2006-08-30 04:30:53 +00:00
jnemeth
ab4b65ff04
fix sentence fragment
2006-08-30 04:18:57 +00:00
ben
0d73d74d6b
Make note that ufsdiskimage mounts asynchronous, which may be undesirableh.
2006-08-30 00:54:11 +00:00
ben
1378921fee
Add a hint regarding set[ug]id pkgsrc programs on a Mac OS X disk image.
2006-08-29 00:29:52 +00:00
wiz
a2a32d1c64
Be more explicit about where devhelp can find its files.
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Document that we prefer share/doc/${PKGNAME} for docs.
2006-08-12 21:29:40 +00:00
wiz
7bc27631a4
Typo fix.
2006-08-11 13:19:38 +00:00
wiz
63d40f1f8c
Describe where gtk-doc docs used by devhelp should be installed.
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Based on text provided by drochner@
2006-08-11 12:09:33 +00:00
wiz
982b974a7f
Refer to firefox instead of mozilla.
2006-07-30 00:30:55 +00:00
wiz
289d1b9e39
Remove empty line.
2006-07-30 00:30:33 +00:00
rillig
43fca8b678
s/re-generate/regenerate/g
2006-07-29 17:55:13 +00:00
rillig
d55481d55e
Moved all the pkgsrc documentation from outside the pkgsrc guide to
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here. There's still much to do to avoid repetition and such, but
the first steps are done.
2006-07-29 15:57:04 +00:00
rillig
7e1b7fd9a3
Integrated the useful information from the NetBSD guide, chap-pack.xml,
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where the pkgsrc guide did not mention things before. Discarded the rest.
2006-07-29 14:14:23 +00:00
rillig
162239966a
Made the introduction more user-friendly.
2006-07-29 14:14:19 +00:00
rillig
05f3491592
Added the targets "regenerate", "regenerate-doc" and "regenerate-htdocs"
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to save some typing when updating the documentation.
2006-07-27 07:06:13 +00:00
rillig
6ce05af35d
Fixed a syntax error.
2006-07-27 06:40:05 +00:00
rillig
b6a5522945
The SunPro C++ compiler defines __SUNPRO_CC, but not __SUNPRO_C.
2006-07-27 06:39:10 +00:00
rillig
3e6a343422
Removed outdated documentation about SKIP_AUDIT_PACKAGES and
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ALLOW_VULNERABILITIES.*, as requested in PR 34096.
2006-07-27 06:38:35 +00:00
rillig
4b92b6eecf
Documented the current order in which files are loaded by the pkgsrc
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infrastructure.
2006-07-24 12:13:35 +00:00
rillig
a91cd6f510
Moved the explanation of the various variables in the "fetch" phase from
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components.xml to build.xml. Added a list of variable names and a link
to the old place. Rewrote and extended the existing documentation to
cover most common cases.
2006-07-24 10:32:36 +00:00
rillig
5f6028feac
Added some sections on variable definition.
2006-07-23 15:48:01 +00:00
rillig
6e79d4a931
Rewrote the section on manual pages, avoiding to say everything twice.
2006-07-23 15:35:08 +00:00
rillig
256d2039b5
Shortened the description of where to find binary packages.
2006-07-23 15:34:10 +00:00
rillig
e21d06d9df
Removed the chapter of the proposed redesign of the bulk build
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framework, since it did not contain any documentation on the current
system.
2006-07-03 23:51:01 +00:00
rillig
bb2127170a
Added "A package does not build. What shall I do?" to the FAQ.
2006-07-02 23:34:03 +00:00
rillig
9a71aeca42
Summarized some places where you can find more documentation about pkgsrc.
2006-07-02 22:45:17 +00:00
rillig
d1fb48921a
When INTERACTIVE_STAGE is set and not only contains "fetch", the package
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cannot be built by the bulk builds.
2006-07-02 12:42:39 +00:00
rillig
c86a5ea8d8
Removed a duplicate word.
2006-07-02 12:42:07 +00:00
rillig
dc0b3feba2
Added a missing word.
2006-07-02 10:01:11 +00:00
rillig
0e4d5a0370
Added documentation for the SUBST framework.
2006-07-01 23:48:16 +00:00
rillig
0e08058593
Removed the policy that INTERACTIVE_STAGE should not contain "fetch", as
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it had not been discussed before.
2006-07-01 12:51:30 +00:00
rillig
a8a113975d
Added another rationale that "fetch" should not be in INTERACTIVE_STAGE.
2006-07-01 09:26:41 +00:00
rillig
98c529535b
INTERACTIVE_STAGE should not be set to "fetch".
2006-06-30 09:41:39 +00:00
rillig
c877c509fb
Updated the chapter on editing the pkgsrc guide. It had been outdated.
2006-06-30 09:25:34 +00:00
rillig
979ebfea0a
Added a chapter "The implementation of the bulk builds" that describes
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how the bulk builds should look like in the future. It is a design
document and subject to discussion.
2006-06-30 08:58:16 +00:00
rillig
f091955572
Using printf is another way to print an arbitrary string.
2006-06-29 13:37:46 +00:00
rillig
a7bdcb585e
Added more entries for "undefined reference to ..." and an explanation
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on how to fix them.
2006-06-29 11:41:04 +00:00
rillig
ccb53ecb27
Reordered the sections so that the general ones are at the beginning,
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followed by the ones specific to a phase. Added an "undefined reference
to ..." section.
2006-06-29 11:29:46 +00:00
rillig
d1b0a0eefb
Added a note that the name LOCALBASE stems from FreeBSD.
2006-06-27 11:07:12 +00:00
rillig
8780ac8c7b
INSTALLATION_DIRS creates directories with the correct ownership.
2006-06-26 23:28:51 +00:00
rillig
68f085bf80
Documented some more file names, so that almost all files in pkgsrc are
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covered now by the documentation.
2006-06-25 10:33:33 +00:00
rillig
d8b7a83f1f
Added buildlink3.mk and options.mk to the list of optional package files.
2006-06-25 10:02:10 +00:00
rillig
fe253c8065
Moved the pkgsrc-bugs mailing list from the user's part to the
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developer's part, since we got a non-PR bug report on it again. Sorted
the other mailing lists by relevance instead of alphabetically.
2006-06-23 10:12:28 +00:00