Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:04:48 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com" <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.org>, "bug-followup@freebsd.org" <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1) Message-ID: <4E21B6A0.6060908@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83_xTcxOSAcQsirCXXX1er6ScoPFWv3qs_SHsM1NE4ixGg@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E20FADE.6060103@missouri.edu> <DD9FE189-F4F2-4BE7-80C3-2951649D4291@lassitu.de> <4E21B051.5040502@missouri.edu> <CADLo83_xTcxOSAcQsirCXXX1er6ScoPFWv3qs_SHsM1NE4ixGg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/16/2011 10:53 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
>
> On 16 Jul 2011 16:38, "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@missouri.edu
> <mailto:stephen@missouri.edu>> wrote:
> >
> > On 07/16/2011 04:26 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
> > You are correct, this needs to be done on a port by port basis. In
> some ports this is going to be a big job, because in some cases the
> "/usr/local" is hard coded into certain binaries.
> >
> > For example, suppose the C source code contains something like:
> > char applications_dir = "/usr/local/share/applications";
> > and this is filled in by the ./configure script.
> >
> > How is that handled?
> >
>
> It's not.
>
> Remember what a package is, literally the files from the plist tarred
> with some magic +FILEs and the pkg-*install files- if paths are
> hardcoded in objects that's how it'll be installed.
What if some of the installation programs are binaries, and "/usr/local"
is hard coded into installation binaries or scripts provided by the
software itself.
> Don't touch the -p option! It's only useful for.... um.... someone help
> here?
I am thinking the same thing!
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