From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 13:10:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450F437B415 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g54JiKNg066905; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:44:20 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g54JiG9j066904; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:44:16 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:44:16 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Alexander V Zubchenko Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Filesystem layout Message-ID: <20020605074416.A66850@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020604164357.Y35686-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020604164357.Y35686-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua>; from stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:48:40PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:48:40PM +0300, Alexander V Zubchenko wrote: > Greetings, All! > > I have general question about the subj. How it would be better for > administering to install big pkg's, such as apache, mysql, postgresql, > etc., directly in /usr/local/ or in /usr/local/{pkg_name}? And, when > compiling apache 2.0 it doesn't found my postgresql-7.2 installation. It > was necessary to install PgSQL to /usr/local/pgsql to make it work. Use the ports system. It puts everything in the right place, and somebody else maintains it for you. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message