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Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in
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Am 16.07.2011 um 04:43 schrieb Stephen Montgomery-Smith:

> I was looking through the source code of pkg_add.  Personally I don't =
see how the "-P" or "-p" option could be made to work with pkg_add. Many =
of the installation commands involve scripts which have ${PREFIX} hard =
coded into them.  ${PREFIX} is often hard coded when trhe package is =
created by the port.  In my opinion, the options "-p" and "-P" should be =
removed from pkg_add.
>=20
> Either that, or provide the port a way to access "@cwd" in any scripts =
it installs.  But this would require a major overhaul of the whole ports =
system, and probably much of the software it installs as well.
>=20
> Am I missing something?

Yes.  Not honoring the prefix is a bug in the port.  If you do need to =
do prefix-specific things during install, use pkg-install, see =
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/pkg-install.html

I suspect that many ports are not well tested outside of "/usr/local", =
but the infrastructure is there and available.


Stefan

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