Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:34:29 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <861whjzzey.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <17991.60332.227909.539504@bhuda.mired.org> (Mike Meyer's message of "Mon\, 14 May 2007 00\:55\:08 -0400") References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <20070511051852.GA89359@xor.obsecurity.org> <17988.32573.910854.388638@bhuda.mired.org> <200705111011.52212.fcash@ocis.net> <17988.46905.9205.461424@bhuda.mired.org> <86zm48ziks.fsf@dwp.des.no> <17991.60332.227909.539504@bhuda.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
> > > How would setting LOCALBASE=3D/usr break this? Of course, equally val=
id
> > > is the question "what will break if I set LOCALBASE=3D/usr"? Hmm. I
> > > think I may found out....
> > For one, man pages for ports will end up in the wrong place (/usr/man
> > instead of /usr/share/man).
> Is this really "broken"? If so, are you sure it's not ports installing
> in ${LOCALBASE}/man instead of ${LOCALBASE}/share/man that's broken?
It doesn't really matter which is right and which is wrong, it's the
inconsistency that is the problem.
> A number of ports seem to depend on the directory tree in ${LOCALBASE}
> existing - ${LOCALBASE}/man/... and ${LOCALBASE}/etc, in
> particular. They use the INSTALL macros to point single files at
> directories, which macro will quite happily create a file with the
> target name if it's not a directory. This creates a number of
> interesting problems later on.
They can correctly assume that the directories exist because we always
run 'mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist -P ${PREFIX}' before installing
a port.
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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