On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+free...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:08:56 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > >> I'm not sure if this is the 'right answer', but NO_INSTALL allows the >> proper installation of numerous ports from one location (the meta-port). >> An example of this is the misc/instant-server port (though >> unmaintained, IIRC). >> >> If you remove the NO_INSTALL line from the Makefile, 'make' thinks >> misc/instant-server should be installed, rather than the collection of >> ports it is intended to install. > > They will be installed since they are run dependencies. >
>From what I can tell (from several metaports) -- they, themselves, are not installed. The ports defined in the metaport are installed. There is no source code for, using your example, CUPS[1]. CUPS (in the FreeBSD ports tree) is, for lack of a better explanation, a pointer to which specific ports you need to have in order to get a fully operation CUPS system running. Looking at the Makefile for print/cups [2] you can see the dependencies and that CUPS is not actually built (which in definition is what makes this a metaport). [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/print/cups [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/print/cups/Makefile?rev=1.43 -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
