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Subject: Re: ports installation location
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Vizion wrote:
> How does one specify a non-standard location for installing a port?
> 
> For example I want to have multiple instances of www/joomla installed for multiple virtual hosts. How can I best go about this? 
> 
> How about upgrades?
> david

Can't do that with ports (unless you make your own ports files), but you
can do it with ./configure --prefix, and then add some 'version tagging'
of your own if you like, i.e. joomla directory => joomla-x.y.z,_r, etc.

It ultimately requires more work on your end though..
-Garrett