Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:06:19 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <17992.24267.517369.614671@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <861whjzzey.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <20070511051852.GA89359@xor.obsecurity.org> <17988.32573.910854.388638@bhuda.mired.org> <200705111011.52212.fcash@ocis.net> <17988.46905.9205.461424@bhuda.mired.org> <86zm48ziks.fsf@dwp.des.no> <17991.60332.227909.539504@bhuda.mired.org> <861whjzzey.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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In <861whjzzey.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> type=
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> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > A number of ports seem to depend on the directory tree in ${LOCALBA=
SE}
> > existing - ${LOCALBASE}/man/... and ${LOCALBASE}/etc, in
> > particular. They use the INSTALL macros to point single files at
> > directories, which macro will quite happily create a file with the
> > target name if it's not a directory. This creates a number of
> > interesting problems later on.
> They can correctly assume that the directories exist because we alway=
s
> run 'mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist -P ${PREFIX}' before installi=
ng
> a port.
Except it apparently doesn't work if PREFIX is /usr.
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