[pacman-dev] pacman port to BSD

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/06/2008, at 5:30 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote:
>
>> Yes, I'm using ABS tree but not packages. What ABS tree should I use
>> then? I obviously was trying to recompile everything using makeworld
>> script but I got a --mtune gcc error that I need to solve just before
>> compiling world again.
> You'd probably have to modify some of the packages, at least to remove
> glibc (I'm not sure what BSD uses instead)
>
>> A thing I think I should add to makepkg/pacman is a way to handle
>> world
>> tools in the BSD userland. I mean, there are a lot of programs that
>> are
>> part of BSD world that pacman and its utilities should count with in
>> order to not overlap them.
> What do you mean? I wouldn't use pkg_add, etc if I was using pacman.
> That's just a recipe for disaster. Stick to one package management
> system and everything should be ok.
>
>> Error over here is more like "don't know how to make pacman.8"
>>
>> Making all in doc
>> make: don't know how to make pacman.8. Stop
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /repos/work/pacman.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
> You need to specify --enable-asciidoc and/or --enable-doxygen for ./
> configure. I don't know why the pacman PKGBUILD doesn't have either,
> and yet somehow the man pages are there.

This is so developers or downstream packagers are not required to have
asciidoc installed when building pacman. In order to make a tarball,
you must not be using --disable-doc, so the tarballs actualy come with
the generated manpages. See commit 26c05b1c8c6fe639cd4.

-Dan