From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 04:33:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE50916A4CF for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grunt25.ihug.com.au (grunt25.ihug.com.au [203.109.249.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D44743D2F for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from p41-tnt1.mel.ihug.com.au (blizzard.dnsalias.org) [203.173.160.41] by grunt25.ihug.com.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDidx-0002M6-00; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:33:26 +1000 Received: from blizzard.dnsalias.org (ozzmosis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i3EBXOxP045142 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:33:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (from ozzmosis@localhost) by blizzard.dnsalias.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i3EBXOT9045141 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:33:24 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: blizzard.dnsalias.org: ozzmosis set sender to mail@ozzmosis.com using -f Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:33:23 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040414113323.GA45005@ozzmosis.com> References: <20040410030621.GA844@doom.homeunix.org> <20040414111827.GA44907@ozzmosis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040414111827.GA44907@ozzmosis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: mail/fetchyahoo running failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:33:29 -0000 On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:18:27PM +1000, andrew clarke wrote: > Actually on second thoughts the lang/perl5 port will probably install > itself to /usr/local/bin/perl, leaving /usr/bin/perl alone, in which Now that I think about it, when I installed the misc/less port, the main binary was copied to /usr/local/bin/less, leaving /usr/bin/less alone. I assume this is common practice for Ports, ie. don't clobber anything distributed in the Base system (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc.)?