Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

[James Sumners]

I don't understand. The point of binary packages is so that you, the
end user, do not have to build them yourself. Thus eliminating the
compile errors and making it an easier system to use.

On 10/26/07, paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/26/07, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was mulling this over last night as I was going to sleep. It seems
> > to me that the port maintainer could be relied upon to build the
> > package for his respective port(s). That way, MacPorts doesn't need to
> > hunt for a build machine.
> >
> > Although, someone would need to step up and maintain a cross compiler
> > port for the maintainers. That would make it easier for the port
> > maintainers to build the packages. If they could do something like
> > `port package +g4 +g5 +intel`, I'm sure the idea would go over a lot
> > better.
> >
> > Of course, there would then need to be functionality built into port
> > to pull down binary packages instead of source packages.
>
> well, that's a bit ambitious, perhaps. I'd be happy to have a reliable way
> to make packages and meta packages on my own. I haven't tested it recently,
> so perhaps it works properly now. If that works, it seems possible to roll
> out an archive of singleton ports (that aren't part of a cluster or
> metapackage). The holy grail would be a way to reliably install the
> MySQL/php/apache cluster or gnome without building anything.
>
> Here's an example of trying to make a package from seahorse, which just
> installed via port upgrade:
> [/Users/paul]# port pkg seahorse
>  --->  Creating pkg for seahorse-2.20.1
> Error: Target org.macports.pkg returned: shell command "mkbom
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_seahorse/work/destroot
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_seahorse/work/seahorse-
> 2.20.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom" returned error 1
> Command output: can't stat
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_seahorse/work/destroot
> (No such file or directory)
> can't make bom
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_seahorse/work/seahorse-2.20.1.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
> for dir
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_seahorse/work/destroot
>
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>

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