From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 15 22:17:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0903737B405 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:17:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA27217; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:23:57 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <200202160623.JAA27217@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: [ade@FreeBSD.org: suggests installing in a USER's HOME dir] In-Reply-To: <20020216034549.GA51544@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> from "Alan Eldridge" at "Feb 15, 2 10:45:49 pm" To: alane@geeksrus.net (Alan Eldridge) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:23:57 +0300 (MSK) Cc: kstailey@surfbest.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG From: "."@babolo.ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alan Eldridge writes: > ----- Forwarded message from Ade Lovett ----- > On 02/15/02 21:21, "Alan Eldridge" wrote: > > But nobody ever did chime in with an idea of where the best place to put > > a 200-400MB *writable* file, installed by a port, is. And that, of course, > > was the whole point in cc'ing portmgr. So, any thoughts on that? > > There is no precedent for this. The closest port (and its aways away by a > long shot) is vmware, when it creates its disk images, usually within the > users home directory. > > Hmm. Perhaps instead of using a hardcoded location, you fix0r the code to > dig up the users home directory getpwuid(geteuid()), and use/create a klh > (or even .klh) subdirectory for the writable stuff? Store a gzipped copy > somewhere in ${PREFIX}, and provide an "initialize" script to do the > necessary magic. > > -aDe > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > So, to follow onto this, here's a suggestion: > > 1. Store the compressed PI disk image in /usr/local/share/whatever. > > 2. Create an "install as user" script. This creates a custom set of .ini > files and copies them, along with an uncompressed disk image, to a directory > that a user specifies. > > IOW, basically what he said, and which was also one of my earlier suggestions. > > Bottom line is, there's just no reliable way to pick a place that will fit > the requirements of (1) unique to local machine (2) big enough (3) writable. I think use of environment variable is good enough. ${EMULATOR_SPACE} for example (directory for all emulator's disk images) administrator can set it in login.conf for everybody or for some classes of users, user can set EMULATOR_SPACE for himself, and no user install if script does not detect this variable. About precedents. May be it is first big disk image in ports, but there is a lot of disk images for different PDP-11 OSes and some of it can be ports. This is reason for some common way. > -- > Alan Eldridge > "Dave's not here, man." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message