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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2023-03-24 07:46:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2023-03-24 07:46:38 +0200 |
| commit | 74f55224442b17ef5d6a03783790f1a2fbd22aaa (patch) | |
| tree | 8a4edc10a609e35d4dc13cfbe508c8c575cd9412 | |
| parent | ceb8d922d6cadefd835278d20184348b1b1dbf98 (diff) | |
Note relocatable installation in pkg-bindist documentation
| -rw-r--r-- | bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli b/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli index 3f4c847..2c05aaa 100644 --- a/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli +++ b/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli @@ -597,6 +597,21 @@ namespace bpkg -C / --strip-components=1 \ + If you expect the binary package to be unpacked into a directory other + than its original installation directory (\cb{--archive-install-root}), + then it's recommended to make it relocatable by specifying the + \cb{config.install.relocatable=true} configuration variable. For example: + + \ + bpkg bindist \ + ... \ + config.install.relocatable=true \ + libhello + \ + + Note that not all source packages support relocatable installation (see + the \l{b#module-install \cb{install}} module documentation for details). + The installation archive package can be generated for a target other than the host by specifying the target triplet with the \cb{--architecture} option. In this case the \cb{bpkg} configuration is assumed to be |