Re: pkg_create @cwd and @srcdir

From: Tim Kientzle (kientzle_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 05/27/04

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To: Brenden Grace <bcg@intelli7.com>

    Brenden Grace wrote:
    > In this thread:
    > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-June/001673.html
    >
    > some people seem to think that @cwd is broken. The man pages do not
    > explicitly state how @cwd should operate, but currently the directory
    > must exist for pkg_create to run properly.
    >
    > This is extremely annoying because build machines *must* create the
    > final directory structure of the target install before the package can
    > be created.
    >
    > So my question is, does the 5.2.1 version of pkg_create contain a bug or
    > is pkg_create really just very limited?

    Try it with bsdtar as the system default tar
    and see if that behaves any differently.
    (WITH_BSDTAR=1 in /etc/make.conf).

    I had read the above thread shortly before I
    designed bsdtar's cwd handling, and it should
    work. bsdtar stores directory change
    requests but doesn't actually try to chdir()
    until it sees a file. That way, extraneous
    cwd requests get silently ignored, rather than
    causing it to abort.

    Let me know...

    Tim Kientzle

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