From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 23:55:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA11433 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 23:55:38 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA11427 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 23:55:37 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA06823; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:45:03 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507270715.QAA06823@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Question on ports/packages To: tony@rtd.com (Tony) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:45:03 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507270521.WAA21027@seagull.rtd.com> from "Tony" at Jul 26, 95 10:21:21 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1107 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Tony stands accused of saying: > If I install a FreeBSD 'package', in general, what control do I have > over where I can install it ? Lots; check the manpage for pkg_add. > I want to install about 20 pieces of software, most of which have > FreeBSD packages but I really want them to install into > /usr/local{bin/etc/lib/X11/man}. With the exception of X stuff, the standard location for package installation is /usr/local > I was under the impression that most FreeBSD packages installed into /usr > and I had little control over this, Where did you get this impression? I don't recall any packages ever installing into /usr other than X packages going into /usr/X11R6/ > Is this basically correct ? No. > tony -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[