From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 05:47:05 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 6785116A4CE for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 05:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-229-205.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.229.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9D1E43D31 for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 05:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 66623 invoked from network); 1 May 2004 12:47:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 May 2004 12:47:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 06:47:03 -0600 From: Robin Schoonover To: Kris Kennaway 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20040501124704.B9D1E43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> cc: Brooks Davis cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If you're bored during the freeze 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: Sat, 01 May 2004 12:47:05 -0000 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/. 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/ and to have a pkg-message that shows an apache > > directive to add that to the web hierachy as //. > > 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>