From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 8 01:49:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03599 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 01:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA03580; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 01:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA17853 (5.65c/IDA-1.5); Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:05:35 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA30132; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 15:03:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 15:03:20 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9703072003.AA30132@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: John Fieber Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ports@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... In-Reply-To: References: <4821.857735697@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Comments? Partially fermented fruit? > It would be nice if it could be unpacked such that it lands on a > user-specified partition. While the ports collection itself > might fit in my /usr, there certainly isn't enough space to build > some of the larger ports there. Actually, it would be nice if the same could be done for /usr/src... As it is, there is no obvious way to say ``please put my sources on /x''. I'd like an option somewhere in the installation procedure to create symbolic links for: /usr/src /usr/local /usr/ports /usr/share /usr/obj (not really necessary for install, but it fits) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick