Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:10:03 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports question Message-ID: <20011123121003.A26507@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <15356.6372.508616.392204@guru.mired.org> References: <66548662@toto.iv> <15356.6372.508616.392204@guru.mired.org>
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> From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:13:08 -0600
> To: "Bara Zani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: /usr/ports question
>
> Bara Zani <bara_zani@yahoo.com> types:
> > Hi ,
> > I want to change the default install options of a certain port , how can i
> > do that ?
>
> If you're talking about location, use PREFIX. That's the top of the
> tree for installs, so binariexz go in $PREFIX/bin, man pages in
> $PREFIX/man, and so on. However, changing the PREFIX for just one
> port isn't very safe - you really should make them *all* install with
> the same PREFIX, which you do by setting LOCALBASE in
> /etc/make.conf. Even then, some ports will break for one reason or
> another because they don't handle the change properly.
This has always made me wonder: the install prefix of every port is
recorded in /var/db/pkg/<port-name>/+CONTENTS. Why isn't this
information used?
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