(Please keep me CC'd, as I am not subscribed to any FreeBSD lists) Plain, simple, obvious question: how do I disable staging support in the latest ports tree?
Today I rebuilt a port (which had been upgraded to remove NO_STAGE=yes from it Makefile) as follows: # make deinstall # make clean install ...and proceeded to watch my /usr/ports filesystem I/O go through the roof with unnecessary crap, starting about here: ===> Staging for sudo-1.8.8 ===> Generating temporary packing list ...which is normal, except I suddenly start tons of disk I/O involving $WRKDIR/stage, proceeded by this: ===> Building package for sudo-1.8.8 Creating package /usr/ports/security/sudo/work/sudo-1.8.8.tbz Registering depends:. Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/security/sudo/work/sudo-1.8.8.tbz' All of this comes from Mk/bsd.port.mk, per _STAGE_SEQ, which is preceded by a plain and simple .if !defined(NO_STAGE). I thought "okay, so just put NO_STAGE=yes in /etc/make.conf" but make.conf(5) had no mention of this so I was wary. Then I found these two posts clearly stating "this is not a make.conf variable and things will bust if you do that": http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/086692.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/086697.html I tried it anyway (in a VM) -- yup, it sure does leave quite a mess laying around if you set it globally, so definitely don't do that. So I read /usr/ports/UPDATING, and /usr/ports/CHANGES, and this: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir ...to no avail. So how do I stop this staging nonsense when it doesn't apply to any of my systems/environments? I install third-party software directly from the ports tree, I DO NOT USE pkg, nor do I ever plan on using pkg given that I customise ports individually (through "make config" and some make.conf knobs) quite heavily. I want to know how to stop this excess waste of disk I/O when it doesn't apply to my environments/systems, and I'm sure many others do as well. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ 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"
