From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 18 06:50:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27306 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 06:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [198.108.1.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27300; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 06:50:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24901; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:50:03 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id JAA10919; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:50:40 -0400 Message-Id: <199809181350.JAA10919@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: merit radius detail files? To: ulf@Alameda.net Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980916171449.B6694@Alameda.net> from "Ulf Zimmermann" at Sep 16, 98 05:14:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Ulf Zimmermann: > > The local diffs are not so much you software itself, it is just where > the software installs. The default on FreeBSD is /usr/local. But a > person might choose /opt. He can set that global. The patches in > the port basicly take care of changing the Makefile of your > software and any source files which maybe have hard coded file names. I use /usr/local/ most places as well. For historical reasons, the Merit AAA Server uses /usr/private/etc by default. Most, if not all, of our file name references are guarded and hence overridable. > A patch might also fix compile warnings or errors, but that depends > on the software. I try hard to ensure that each release compiles cleanly without warnings or errors on all of the platforms we do support (I also do a special FreeBSD build even though we do not -- yet -- officially support the FreeBSD platform -- remember, I told you that I like FreeBSD -- a lot!) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network, Inc. Email: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C Phone: (734) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (734) 647-3185 [ Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: Scientists have announced discovering ] [ a meteorite which will strike the earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX ] [ coders expressed relief for being spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message