Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:18:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LOCALBASE vs PREFIX Message-ID: <200010122218.QAA72839@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Oct 2000 14:46:21 PDT." <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200010122128.PAA72178@harmony.village.org>
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In message <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Satoshi - Ports
Wraith - Asami writes:
: But to really fix the problem, we need to force all ports into
: separate PREFIXes and require that they work even if they are
: installed elsewhere. This means something like GNU stowage (real
: files in separate hierarchy per port, symlink tree from PREFIX) and
: much more rigorous testing.
:
: Of course, this layout will have other benefits such as ease of
: switching between multiple versions. Are people willing to go for it?
: If so, I can produce some prototype code in a few weeks.
We (Timing Solutions) like to have a setup that looks like the
following. We were going to see about producing some code, but aren't
sure how easy/hard it will be.
/software/dist/${SW}-${VER}/<normal tree here>
we then make symbolic links from /software/dist/${SW} to
/software/dist/${SW}-${VER} for that software that we want to be the
default. We also have symbolic links in /software/{bin,lib,share,etc}
to the specific version when we "install" them.
We were thinking of having symbolic links from the
/software/dist/${SW}-${VER}/{bin,lib,etc} to those packages that the
port depends upon.
Once we had that, building would be easy.
I know this is somewhat fractured. It sounds somewhat like what
you've talking about. We'd be interested in at least havnig the
ability to do this.
Warner
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