From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 15:13:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eve.speakeasy.net (eve.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29F337B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paradive (dsl254-006-184-sea1.dsl-isp.net [216.254.6.184]) by eve.speakeasy.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e86MCIp01035; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:12:19 -0700 Message-ID: <031501c0184f$0747c180$02fea8c0@localdomain> From: "paradive" To: "Siegbert Baude" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <14773.33577.842372.439782@guru.mired.org> <39B61430.1F2F60BD@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Installing CD packages to HD? Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:08:45 -0700 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Siegbert Baude To: Mike Meyer ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:53 AM Subject: Re: Installing CD packages to HD? > 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. is there a way to do this with "make" using ports as well? paradive To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message