From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 15 23: 8:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF2037B400 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1G76vY88123; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:06:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:06:57 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: "."@babolo.ru Cc: kstailey@surfbest.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ade@FreeBSD.org: suggests installing in a USER's HOME dir] Message-ID: <20020216070656.GA87963@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020216034549.GA51544@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <200202160623.JAA27217@aaz.links.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202160623.JAA27217@aaz.links.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. 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 On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:23:57AM +0300, "."@babolo.ru wrote: >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? >> >> 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. Ken, does it get directories from env as well as .ini file? If it doesn't, then this would entail some invasive software mods that I think are beyond the scope of a port, unless the original author was willing to incoroporate them into the base distribution. -- 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