Bug 218311

Summary:	Porters handbook: Requesting enhanced pkg-add testing description, Section 3.4
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Steve Jacobson <sjac998>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Mathieu Arnold <mat>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	sjac998
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Steve Jacobson 2017-04-02 21:47:53 UTC

In Section 3.4 of the Porter's Handbook, Procedure 3.1, step 6:  I could not figure out how to make the pkg-add test step work.

The step specifies a generic <package-filename>, which was not clear.  I found a likely candidate in the work directory, but referencing it did not work.  Perhaps I needed to specify a path.

I perused Section 8 of the manual, but did not find an obvious solution.

I am testing on FreeBSD 10.2, release, amd64.

Thanks!

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#porting-testing

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2017-04-03 01:59:38 UTC

This is in the procedure for creating a new port, "short version".

package-filename will be the value of PKGFILE:

portsjail% cd www/apache24
portsjail% make -V PKGFILE
/home/linimon/ports/www/apache24/apache24-2.4.25_1.txz

Of course, it doesn't need the whole path.

Next, please don't make an old fellow like me nervous by saying 'pkg-add'.  That was our old system.  The command you will want is 'pkg add' (no dash).

Comment 2 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer

2017-08-04 13:43:08 UTC

I removed the pkg add step.  It was an old step that has not been needed ever 
since staging came along.

Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2017-08-04 13:43:15 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: mat
Date: Fri Aug  4 13:42:28 UTC 2017
New revision: 50635
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50635

Log:
  Remove the pkg add step.  The package is already installed in the make
  install step.

  PR:		218311
  Reported by:	Steve Jacobson
  Stolen from:	linimon
  Sponsored by:	Absolight, The FreeBSD Foundation

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/quick-porting/chapter.xml