From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 10:17:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4344216A4CE; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:17:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pencil.math.missouri.edu (pencil.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5575043F75; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu) Received: from pencil.math.missouri.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hAGIH9Uq075386; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:17:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rich@pencil.math.missouri.edu) Received: (from rich@localhost)hAGIH9xr075385; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:17:09 -0600 (CST) From: Rich Winkel Message-Id: <200311161817.hAGIH9xr075385@pencil.math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <44fzgrt5b9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> "from Lowell Gilbert at Nov 14, 2003 09:04:10 am" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:17:09 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: Rich Winkel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5 ports don't respect LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:17:11 -0000 According to Lowell Gilbert: > Rich Winkel writes: > > > I support various types of servers and workstations which need > > different "local" software sets. I do all my building on one > > machine, so I use LOCALBASE and PKG_DBDIR in /etc/make.conf to > > keep the various configurations separate. Unfortunately many ports > > don't respect the LOCALBASE setting and install into /usr/local, > > even while recording the packing list as being in LOCALBASE! > > > > The p5 ports seem especially bad about this. I understand the > > need for perl to be able to find its local packages, so after I > > manually fix things up I need to know how to tell perl to look > > for its stuff under LOCALBASE instead of /usr/local. Can someone > > tell me? > > > > Or alternatively, has someone else found a better way to deal with > > the whole problem of maintaining different software sets?? > > This is really a ports question, so I'm redirecting there. > > Apparently you're dealing with bugs in the ports, but it's hard to be > sure without more details. Can you give a specific example? Thanks for the reply! I've had such problems with spamassassin-milter and also apsprint. Rich