Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:31:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question regarding local scripts Message-ID: <slrnmemsgc.1jj.varro@anukis.local> References: <1556736143.91711691.1424680724984.JavaMail.zimbra@logitravel.com> <1587845035.91715373.1424680950928.JavaMail.zimbra@logitravel.com>
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Raimund Sacherer wrote: > Hello, > > I am rather new to FreeBSD, putting a couple of new servers in production. I read a lot in the manuals, the man hier and googled around, but I can't find best practices for storing local scripts / apps. > > In Debian this part was easy, Debian never touches /usr/local, so I had this complete namespace for internal use. > > How to do this in FreeBSD the sane way? > > I thought of creating /scripts, but this seems odd, I thought of /opt/scripts or /opt/scripts/[s]bin hierarchy, or /opt/local/[s]bin hierarchy, but I am not sure how you are doing this sort of thing. > > I think what I like best would be to recreate a sort of /usr/local hierarchy under /opt/local. I was a bit hesitant at first too, when I moved from Linux to freeBSD, but now I have no qualms at all about installing local software under /usr/local (assuming the software is meant for general use - if just for one user, install under $HOME). There's really no need IMO to keep it separate from software installed by pkg. -- Will
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