Hi Bartek, On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 23:42:36 +0200, Bartek Palmowski wrote: > Hi > (this is my first post here \:D/) > Pkgmk deletes work dir before performing build, I think it would be very > handy feature to optionally allow building package from existing work dir, > it would work very well altogether with nipuL's > pkgutils-5.32.0-extract-only.patch[1], instead of pkgmk -do, then > extracting sources manually, then modifiing Pkgfile, making patches, and > then checking if it works, it would be easier to do firstly pkgmk -do -e to > download and extract sources, "mess" with them, and then pkgmk -b to build > from already modified sources. So you'd end up with a package you can't reproduce after the 'work' is removed, because you didn't make patches from your changes. Seems like a major step back, and nothing that should be actively encouraged.
> It would speed up port creating and debugging process, and would be > useful not only for port maintainers but also end users trying to tweak or > simply make ports to work. You may think of it as similar to putting read > KEY inside build(). Such feature is included in other distros' package > builders i.e. "makepkg -e" etc. etc. Independent from your request, please note thta it's a common pattern that new users come here and tell us "it would be easier" and "it would speed up [things]" or "such feature is include in other distros". There's some comment on the in the "Compared to other Linux distributions" section of http://crux.nu/Main/About which you may want to read. HTH, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch _______________________________________________ crux-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux-devel
