Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:31:26 -0600 From: mike grommet <mgrommet@insolwwb.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: /usr/local/bin [was: Re: executable scripts] Message-ID: <A199D70FC96DD211AD100060976792610359CC@ISIMAIL> In-Reply-To: <A199D70FC96DD211AD1000609767926109014B@ISIMAIL>
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>From personal experience, you will find that because FreeBSD does dump local
packages into /usr/local, that your upgrades with freebsd will go much much
easier
than with BSDI... The BSDI upgrade process stinks because if you are doing
your job,
you are updating packages like apache and such as needed and then when it
comes time to
upgrade the OS, the upgraded software ends up putting up versions of
software that is ancient
compared to what you have previously installed.
FreeBSD upgrades are fairly nice. the only time I've had this problem with
FreeBSD
is with sendmail... I've installed 8.9.1, 2.2.8 re-installed
8.8.whatever...
now the nice thing was that I put the source tree for sendmail under
/usr/local
so all I had to do was go into the sendmail tree and do another reinstall...
everything else was perfect.
I like BSDI just fine other than the upgrade procedures, and its a fine OS
and performs well, but they could definately make some massive improvements
in their
upgrade methodology
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Studded
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 1999 8:26 PM
To: Michael Maxwell
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin [was: Re: executable scripts]
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Michael Maxwell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 08:58:43PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> > I'm just playing with an initial install of FreeBSD for the
> > first time and had noticed the way ports polluted /usr/local
> > which I have always considered to be *mine*. I've noted that
> > BSDI use /usr/contrib for the sort of stuff that FreeBSD puts in
> > /usr/local, and that seems more sensible to me if there is
> ---end quoted text---
>
> I just reverse the process: I let the ports and packages fall where they
> may, and I put locally compiled or developed programs in /usr/contrib.
I like /usr/mine personally, but it's a matter of taste. :) The
whole /usr/local idea is widespread, it's not just FreeBSD. Better to
establish a totally unique location for your stuff that no one else is
likely to use than it is to try and fight the battle every time it comes
up.
Doug
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