From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 11:10:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-017.telepath.com [216.14.0.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48F1837B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20318 invoked by uid 100); 6 Sep 2000 18:09:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14774.34893.26227.486067@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:09:17 -0500 (CDT) To: Siegbert Baude Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Installing CD packages to HD? In-Reply-To: <39B61430.1F2F60BD@gmx.de> References: <14773.33577.842372.439782@guru.mired.org> <39B61430.1F2F60BD@gmx.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Siegbert Baude writes: > Hi Mike, > > I believe the 4.0-RELEASE cdrom was equally damaged. Personally, I > > *hate* this. Since I build ports with LOCALBASE=/usr/opt, the packages > > are useless. Since the distfiles can be used to create the packages, > > but not vice versa, this is a loss in functionality. My use of the > > things is now restricted to dealing with -questions (as above), and > > making copies for friends who otherwise wouldn't look at FreeBSD. > Look at the -p (prefix) option of pkg_add. You can change the install directory > there. Hi Siegbert, While that will change the install directory, I find it hard to believe that it will change things like the file names in man pages, or the compiled-in paths to files, etc. In practice, I've noticed that doing a "make" with one prefix and a "make install" with another leads to confusing results. So while some things make work fine with the -p option, many won't. Thanx,