Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:32:22 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LOCALBASE vs PREFIX Message-ID: <20001012173222.B48659@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010122218.QAA72839@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:18:52PM -0600 References: <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200010122128.PAA72178@harmony.village.org> <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200010122218.QAA72839@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:18:52PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
Some random thoughts..
Do you have separate locations for "/usr/X11R6" and "/usr/local",
or does everything go under /software/{bin,...}
ie: is there a distinction between ${LOCALBASE} and ${X11BASE}
If we're looking at some kind of stowage system, this might be
the ideal time to actually stop installing *anything* in
/usr/{X11R6,local}, and do a s?/software/?/usr/packages/? for
the FreeBSD version of Warner's suggestion - I never really
understood why X went in its own hierarchy, and using /usr/packages
would free up /usr/local for truly _local_ stuff.
One question, though.. in this scheme of things, where I have
a package "foo" with a shared library "bar.so.2", where do I
depend on it?
1. The actual location:
/software/dist/foo-x.y/lib/libbar.so.2
2. The first linked location:
/software/dist/foo/lib/libbar.so.2
3. The linked location in the "real" tree:
/software/lib/libbar.so.2
??
Can we leverage this to also have explicit inter-package version
dependencies by virtue of the foo -> foo-x.y link?
-aDe
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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org
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