Package management

[Matthew Burgess]

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:02:46 -0700, Gordon Schumacher <gordon at rebit.com> wrote:
> Gordon Schumacher wrote:

>> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat >> ~/.bash_profile <<
>> "EOF"
>> <literal>make_package() {
>>   tar cf $1.tar.bz2 $PKGTEMP
>> }</literal>
>> EOF</userinput></screen>

...

>> <screen><userinput>if [ "$(type -t make_package)" == "function" ]; then
>>   make DESTDIR=$PKGTEMP install
>>   make_package foo-&foo-version;
>> fi</userinput></screen>

As I'm sure you're already aware, Gordon, we have historically tried to stick to
an entirely linear, no-optional-extras format to the book.  As such, I would
prefer it if we just went whole-heartedly into DESTDIR support, no ifs, buts or
maybes :-).

That said, with the rumblings of additional architecture support, I don't think
our traditional linear style is going to hold out much longer.

So, I'd be more than happy to review any patch(es) you make against trunk. I
suspect this may need a change to jhalfs, which I use to automate my builds,
so that it will optionally define your make_package() function, but I don't
think that will be too hard for me, you or someone else to fix up.

Thanks for working on this!  It's alway nice to see new contributors!

Regards,

Matt.