[Box Backup] Small tweak to makeparcels.pl

Chris Wilson boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:54:49 +0100 (BST)


Hi David,

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, David H Kaufman wrote:

> makeparcels.pl assumes that the directory it is installing into (e.g.
> /usr/local/bin) exists. Because of the way Gentoo ebuilds work, this is not
> usually the case for us, so we are carrying a trivial patch to
> makeparcels.pl.in. It would be nice if this change made it into the base
> distribution:
> 
> *** boxbackup-0.11rc2.dist/infrastructure/makeparcels.pl.in     2008-10-18
> 07:58:40.000000000 -0400
> --- boxbackup-0.11_rc2/infrastructure/makeparcels.pl.in 2008-10-18
> 08:05:27.000000000 -0400
> ***************
> *** 161,166 ****
> --- 161,167 ----
>                         {
>                                 $local_install_dir = "@prefix@/$dest";
>                         }
> +                       print SCRIPT "mkdir -p
> \${DESTDIR}$install_into_dir/\n";
>                         print SCRIPT "install $name " .
>                                 "\$DESTDIR$local_install_dir\n";
>                 }


Thanks, I've done that now, although I think it should be 
$local_install_dir instead of $install_into_dir, so I used that instead.
 
> P.S. For the Gentoo fans out there, I have just done an update to the
> pending boxbackup 0.11_rc2 ebuild. See Gentoo bug at 205558
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205558 .

Thanks :)

Cheers, Chris.
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