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From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>
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Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))
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In <861whjzzey.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> type=
d:
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > A number of ports seem to depend on the directory tree in ${LOCALBA=
SE}
> > 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 alway=
s
> run 'mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist -P ${PREFIX}' before installi=
ng
> a port.

Except it apparently doesn't work if PREFIX is /usr.

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