Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:22:09 -0700 From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting p5-foo packages to install in the right place Message-ID: <p0521062ebac260aaf161@[142.131.246.132]> In-Reply-To: <16028.10932.908846.661513@guru.mired.org> References: <p05210619bac0de15a488@[142.131.246.132]> <16028.10932.908846.661513@guru.mired.org>
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At 10:52 AM -0500 4/15/03, Mike Meyer wrote: >In <p05210619bac0de15a488@[142.131.246.132]>, Paul Hoffman ><phoffman@proper.com> typed: >> However, when I give the "pkg_add -r p5-foo" command, it install the >> package (and the the dependencies) in the 5.005 tree, not in the 5.8 >> tree. How can I get pkg_add to install in the correct place? > >In general, you probably can't. For each package, you can try >"pkg_info -p <whatever>.tgz" to see what the package base is, but it's >probably /usr/local for all of them. The path names beyond /usr/local >are wired into the package, and can't be changed. > >To fix this, you probably have to install from the ports, not the >packages. Drat. But that makes sense. Thanks!
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