From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 17:18:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D86106566B for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christopher-ml@telting.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CC2F8FC23 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:18:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 350 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2010 17:18:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (76.169.198.42) by p3plsmtpa01-07.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.87) with ESMTP; 01 Mar 2010 17:18:27 -0000 Message-ID: <4B8BF6E3.3040009@telting.org> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:18:27 -0800 From: Chris Telting User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100225) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: spreculative: /bin2 & /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:18:31 -0000 Just wondering if anyone cares to share their thoughts about this. There are a few ports that I would love to see included in the base tree such as OpenLDAP and the Openbsd pdksh or bash. But It hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So I was thinking about the pkg infrastructure. The location of the pkg file database I believe can be specified. And the installation directories I believe can also be specified. Other than that paths would have to be changed for binaries and libraries and probably share and other installation points. This should allow separate package trees meaning that when I delete and reinstall my main ports these programs will not be affected and the package database info for these will not be screwed up. Is it possible and if it is has anyone implemented it on their own systems? Or have people simply taken to installing ports in the main directories? Chris