From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 13:34:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 13:34:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8146B37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:34:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA53575; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:34:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBALYGr82295; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:34:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:34:16 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Meyer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PREFIX clean vs. LOCALBASE clean (Was: Package installation location) Message-ID: <20001210133415.A82246@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001210125026.A27718@drama.navipath.com> <20001210132152.B27718@drama.navipath.com> <14899.54065.737498.114689@guru.mired.org> <20001210141851.C39643@vger.bsdhome.com> <14899.56471.793516.237193@guru.mired.org> <20001210114736.G80274@dragon.nuxi.com> <14899.58688.221761.200245@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14899.58688.221761.200245@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:19:12PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:19:12PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > I intend "LOCALBASE clean" to mean "all files installed by other ports > > > are looked for in the LOCALBASE tree". > > > > If all ports are PREFIX clean, you will have that. Thus it doens't need > > to be discussed separately. > > Using the two definitions above, the first sentence is false. How is it false? > In particular, assume that the port APort depends on BPort in some > way, and is PREFIX clean. Which is PREFIX clean? Aport or Bport? (it is often good to not use pronouns in technical disucssions...) > That means that everything in APort is installed in PREFIX, and all > APorts references to things in APort look for them there. Which is correct if Aport is PREFIX-clean. > Neither of those statements precludes APort from looking for things > that are part of BPort directly in /usr/local instead of in > LOCALBASE. Yes it does if Aport is PREFIX-clean. s./usr/local.PREFIX.g and would be a better way to say it, adding PREFIX != LOCALBASE. > Doing so would make APort PREFIX clean while it was not LOCALBASE > clean. True. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message