Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:06:57 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> 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> In-Reply-To: <200202160623.JAA27217@aaz.links.ru> References: <20020216034549.GA51544@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <200202160623.JAA27217@aaz.links.ru>
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:23:57AM +0300, "."@babolo.ru wrote:
>Alan Eldridge writes:
>> ----- Forwarded message from Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> -----
>> On 02/15/02 21:21, "Alan Eldridge" <alane@geeksrus.net> 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."
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