Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 06:47:03 -0600 From: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If you're bored during the freeze Message-ID: <20040501124704.B9D1E43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040427100454.GA62551@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040424011249.GA20496@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040427090425.GA21675@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040427100454.GA62551@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 03:04:54 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:04:26AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:12:49PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I'm probably going to add /usr/local/www to BSD.local.dist so it > > > becomes a "system" directory. > > > > This sounds like a good idea to me. One related issue is ports that > > intall under /usr/local/www/data/<subdir>. I've seen quite a few PHP > > ports that do that and it's a bad idea since that directory may or may > > not be a link to data.dist. I've moved my PHP ports to use > > /usr/local/www/<subdir> and to have a pkg-message that shows an apache > > <Alias> directive to add that to the web hierachy as /<subdir>/. > > Yes, nothing should install under data/ since that's where a live > website usually lives, and it's Very Bad for ports to install > themselves so they immediately show up there Hmm, where should ports install themselves? Is share/ a good place and just have the 'user' symlink it or copy it over to data/? -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # Perl programming is an *empirical* science! # --Larry Wall in <10226@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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