Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 10:46:13 -0500 From: Erik Greenwald <erik@smluc.org> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributing to Ports Message-ID: <20020803154613.GA3075@freya> In-Reply-To: <3D4B811C.9060500@p6m7g8.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208021201330.21467-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net> <oKny5ZWlCE@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <3D4B811C.9060500@p6m7g8.com>
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On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:07:08AM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> I'd like to start contributing to ports in a lot more earnest then before.
>
> I want to basically try and build all the ports and fix problems where
> they occur, but I would like to change the install directory to say
> /usr/local/ports so that I don't kill the rest of my system.
>
> I don't think changing
> LOCALBASE?= ${DESTDIR}/usr/local
> X11BASE?= ${DESTDIR}/usr/X11R6
> PKG_DBDIR?= /var/db/pkg
>
> is they're any easy way to do this or documentation ?
>
hrmmm, I haven't worried about trashing my system doing ports, it's a
pretty safe thing to do I think. When I think my port is ready for
submitting, I do have a bare minimal jail that I use to check
dependancies and cleaning in, you may consider doing that as a 'safe'
playground. That would be totally divorced from your base system... if
the software tries to install ignoring the prefix, it can't over-write
anything critical. If it screws up badly, you can always just purge the
jail directory and build a new one :) About the only thing jails can't
give you a safe playground for is kernel hacking...
> END
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Philip M. Gollucci philip@p6m7g8.com 301.474.9294 301.646.3011 (cell)
>
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