From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 22:02:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6620216A420 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:02:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C4843D55 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:02:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5CF56.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.207.86]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0PLrmr5023404; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:53:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0PM1x10074030; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:02:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:01:59 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-ID: <20060125230159.0922840c@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200601252114.NAA78378@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <20060125210817.GB27610@soaustin.net> <200601252114.NAA78378@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:02:03 -0000 On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:14:45 -0800 (PST) "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > The real solution is to make sure that ports will install to alternative > > locations of LOCALBASE and X11BASE (a recent regression test exposed many > > of the former). Once that's done, perhaps we can consider doing away > > with the historical artifact of X11BASE forever. > > Ok, so the move of vmware3 from /usr/local to /usr/X11R6 was an arbitrary > change made with no intent? If so could we please move it back as that > kinda broke anyone doing updates.... since vmware well infact preserve > prior settings in the config files. > > This move occured during the mega update to linux_base-8.8 i think. If it was done during the mega-update, then it was me who was doing the move. Some end-user ports (as opposed to linux infrastructure ports like the linux-X11 libs) installed into LINUXBASE, some into LOCALBASE and some into X11BASE. I tried to streamline all of them to behave consistently (to not install into LINUXBASE but into LOCALBASE or X11BASE). As a rule which ports belongs into which PREFIX, I modelled the behavior after the status quo of the ports collection as described in the previous mail. So if a port previously depended upon the linux X11 libs, I removed this hardcoded dependency and added USE_X_PREFIX, which resulted in using X11BASE as the destination, and automatically depending upon the linux X11 libs (the background for this automatism is to be able to switch to a different linux X11 port, e.g. a not yet existing linux X.org libs port, just by changing it at one place). Personally I don't care if we install everything in LOCALBASE or not (even if I see some benefits in having separate trees for X11 using ports and non-X11 using ports, e.g. when sharing a common base on desktops and servers), but I don't want to touch the status quo. Is it non-trivial to move the vmware config files, or does vmware store some paths to his binaries in the config? Bye, Alexander. -- The computer revolution is over. The computers won. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 WL http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/registry/1FZ4DTHQE9PQ8/ref=wl_em_to/