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Re: Dependencies between "build" and "dist"
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Steven Knight |
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Re: Dependencies between "build" and "dist" |
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Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:53:39 -0500 (CDT) |
> The problem with pkgmk is that it is intolerant to random files within
> the directory that it created (or rather that it is planning to update. It
> knows the files that should belong there, and I believe it does the
> equivalent of rm of all the files and a rmdir of the directory - the
> latter will fail when there is an extraneous file. Maybe with Solaris 8,
> sun has actually made the behavior better, or configurable through a flag.)
>
> This means, you cannot leave extraneous files inside the final destination,
> since a genuine invocation of pkgmk will fail when it attempts to rm the
> directory and lay out the new package files on the filesystem.
So put the dummy target file in another directory; the principle's the same.
--SK