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diff --git a/mk/help/destdir.help b/mk/help/destdir.help index 34b2a106367..e918bc6e2dc 100644 --- a/mk/help/destdir.help +++ b/mk/help/destdir.help @@ -1,29 +1,14 @@ -# $NetBSD: destdir.help,v 1.7 2016/04/10 15:09:26 joerg Exp $ +# $NetBSD: destdir.help,v 1.8 2016/04/10 15:15:45 joerg Exp $ # # === # Warning: This file is still under construction. Don't rely on it. # === # # This file documents the variables around the DESTDIR support. -# -# Normally, packages are installed directly into LOCALBASE and may -# overwrite files of other packages there. It also makes it easy to -# create packages which behave differently depending on whether they -# are installed from source or from a binary package. This is not good. -# -# The DESTDIR support tries to prevent some of these problems. When it -# is enabled, packages are not installed directly into LOCALBASE. -# Instead, they are installed in a temporary directory, and a binary -# package is created from the files that have been installed there. -# -# === User-settable variables === -# -# USE_DESTDIR -# * "yes" to enable DESTDIR support for those packages that -# explicitly support it. If the package supports it, -# the build will run completely under the privileges of the -# calling users, only package installation via pkg_add is done -# as root. +# During the build, package files are not installed directly into +# LOCALBASE, but a temporary directory under WRKDIR. Any direct change +# of LOCALBASE is a bug. A binary package is created from the content +# of that temporary directory and then installed normally with pkg_add. # # === Package-settable variables === # |