From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 10:11:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0890716A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2401943D5C for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 28989 invoked by uid 89); 27 Apr 2004 17:07:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.131) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2004 17:07:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 5857 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2004 17:11:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 27 Apr 2004 17:11:35 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A39C614E; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:11:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4652AB; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:14:56 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 16796-02; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:14:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id EDD97258; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:14:54 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:14:54 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Robin Schoonover Message-Id: <20040427201454.48271bf5@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040427131213.DBEAF43D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040424011249.GA20496@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040427090425.GA21675@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040427100454.GA62551@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040427131213.DBEAF43D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro cc: Brooks Davis cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: If you're bored during the freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:11:38 -0000 On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:12:06 -0600 Robin Schoonover wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 03:04:54 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:04:26AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:12:49PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > I'm probably going to add /usr/local/www to BSD.local.dist so it > > > > becomes a "system" directory. > > > > > > This sounds like a good idea to me. One related issue is ports that > > > intall under /usr/local/www/data/. I've seen quite a few PHP > > > ports that do that and it's a bad idea since that directory may or may > > > not be a link to data.dist. I've moved my PHP ports to use > > > /usr/local/www/ and to have a pkg-message that shows an apache > > > directive to add that to the web hierachy as //. > > > > Yes, nothing should install under data/ since that's where a live > > website usually lives, and it's Very Bad for ports to install > > themselves so they immediately show up there [1] > > > > It gets worse. One port, that I unfortunately cannot remember now, > deleted the entire /usr/local/www/data tree when I deinstalled it. I've also have a hard time upgrading apache because I had a .tbz file in that dir. Of course, I don't remember details ;) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"