Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:37:12 -0600 From: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to install data? (boinc) Message-ID: <20040702003851.9C9D043D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <005485B1-CB30-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> References: <20040701045011.GB19108@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <005485B1-CB30-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:26:43 +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
>
> Are you talking about *data files* or the program here? Normally hier(7)
> should answer most of you questions, and during installation time you
> should only put files into ${PREFIX}/.., which should have it's default
> value.
boinc is strict on where the program files go.
I can make the -boinc- binaries go into their normal places, however
seti_boinc's binaries (which is a separate port) -CANNOT- go anywhere
else -but- with the boinc data. In fact, as far as boinc is concerned, the
seti_boinc binaries -are- data, and on some platforms where the
boinc/seti people have binaries, they will auto-update themselves.
>
> Nope, your port installs into ${PREFIX}/.., so put it into
> ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d
>
> >> All the other boinc data lives in /var/db/boinc (so setiathome, or
> >> seti_boinc as I should probably call it, gets installed to
> >> /var/db/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu).
>
> Hmmm... that may be a misunderstanding on my side, but you shouldn't
> *install* stuff there. The port can keep it's (generated) data in this
> location, though.
Either I forget using /var/db entirely, or I install stuff there. One or
the other.
Here is how it gets difficult: setiathome -must- install itself
to the boinc datadir, and setiathome isn't the only port that'll use
boinc. So, if I'm going to abandon sticking stuff on install into
/var/db, I must abandon sticking stuff there entirely.
(Ok. I'm not entirely truthful with the above. I could install
everything under the normal ${PREFIX} and use scripts and magic pixie dust
to make data work under /var/db, but I'd rather not complicate it)
So anyhow, I guess everything gets to go into the default ${PREFIX}. This
-does- simplify the issue I was having with the rc.d script on one part of
the system and the rest.
I hope that made sense.
--
Robin Schoonover (aka End)
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