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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:22:09 -0700
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting p5-foo packages to install in the right place
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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!