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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:19:41 -0700
From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: PREFIX in pkg-install (cricket-1.0.4.p1)
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>> (05.03.2003 @ 0935 PST): Sue Blake said, in 1.1K: <<
> When I installed net/cricket-1.0.4.p1 the cricket user was added
> with the home directory /cricket which seemed a little odd.
> 
> My cricket port is a couple of months old, but of the same vintage
> as the one on the ports web site.
> My ports tree is not in good order so I could have a problem at my end,
> but it made me curious about the use of PREFIX.
> 
> In pkg-install the pw useradd command uses  -d "${PREFIX}/cricket"
> 
> Grepping other pkg-install files, I see that PREFIX is set before
> it is used, e.g.
> 
> ../cvsupit/pkg-install:    PREFIX=/usr/local
> 
> ../jabber/pkg-install:    etcdir=${PREFIX:-$PKG_PREFIX}/etc
> 
> ../nrpe/pkg-install:PKG_PREFIX=${PKG_PREFIX:=/usr/local}
> ../nrpe/pkg-install:  /usr/sbin/pw useradd ${user} -g ${group} -h - -d ${PKG_PREFIX}/var/nagios \
> 
> 
> Is it necessary, or helpful, to add something similar for cricket?
>> end of "PREFIX in pkg-install (cricket-1.0.4.p1)" from Sue Blake <<

Very true. I've patched it in the Makefile. Thanks!

# Adam


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