From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 11:41:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF8337B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA05052; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:40:56 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <001801c01832$07302100$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <14773.33577.842372.439782@guru.mired.org><39B61430.1F2F60BD@gmx.de> <14774.34893.26227.486067@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Installing CD packages to HD? Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:40:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > 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. There are also the MASTER and SLAVE options. But I never fiddled around with them. Anybody here with some experience? Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message