LFS - DESTDIR Style

[Randy McMurchy]

Sukucorp Sukucorp wrote these words on 03/31/08 16:40 CST:
> On undefined, Dave Wheeler <dwwheeler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree w/ pretty much everything said below and would also like to
>>  see a DESTDIR-branch.  I'd add the uninstall commands should also be
>>  broken out into pre- and post- stages.  An example would be calling
>>  pwunconv and grpunconv if you uninstall shadow - they need to be
>>  executed before removing the shadow package.
> 
> You are correct. In my build scripts I have two separate functions,
> one for before removing the files and one for after removing the
> files.

But what is being described here is much more than just a DESTDIR
installation method. To me, this sounds like pure PM, and probably
more than LFS should take on.

-- 
Randy

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