[gobolinux-users] sandboxintall broken?

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:26:57 +0200, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:

> im trying to do some manual source based installs, and it seems to work fine
> up until the sandboxintall stage. it keeps reporting something about orphaned
> files when it does the postprosessing of the sandbox.
>
> btw, im using the guide in the wiki for this.
>
SandboxInstall is quite tricky to use by its own. I would recommend creating a
recipe for the application you're trying to build. Most of the times (there are
very few exceptions) you will gain more time than you put into making the
recipe.

If you still want to use SandboxInstall by its own you should note what files
that are orphaned and either change/patch the installation process to install
those files into the application's prefix or make the files unmanaged by
passing the conflicting files or directories to SandboxInstall using the
'--unmanaged-files' option, e.g.
'SandboxInstall --unmanaged-files="/System/Variable/log/foo:/System/Variable/lock/foo" foo 1.0'

The former is prefered for most files or directories.

-- 
/Jonas

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