On Sun, 10 May 2009 15:22:04 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Marcin Wisnicki > <mwisnicki+free...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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.
That's the point. The metaports should be installed as well (reasons given in my original mail). > 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). I know this. The proper way to make a metaport is to: 1. use only RUN_DEPENDS 2. set NO_BUILD 3. do *NOT* set NO_INSTALL 4. provide empty do-install target There are several metaports that get it right, like for example x11/gnome2: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/gnome2/Makefile?rev=1.155 _______________________________________________ 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"