Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:36:14 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <14379.17630.340446.163663@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <199911112213.RAA34417@server.baldwin.cx> References: <14378.28246.28493.440833@guru.phone.net> <199911112213.RAA34417@server.baldwin.cx>
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John Baldwin writes: ;->On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote: ;->> I still curse at regular intervals at the ports/packages collection ;->> installing things in /usr/local. That means I need another place for ;->> things that I maintain, instead of came with FreeBSD. Putting ;->> everything in /usr is one such solution. /opt is another (but having ;->> everything have it's own hierarchy pretty much sucks). ;->Try maintaining a lab of 40-80 identical machines. Then imagine ;->distributing /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 via NFS. Then you only have to ;->install the package on one machine to install it everywhere. That ;->doesn't work when installed under /usr. Are you enlightened yet? Yes, but not about what you hoped. Back when I did that kind of thing, I did a better job than that. Let's see - off the top of my head, I've network mounted /usr (the Linux solution to this problem), /opt (the Solaris solution), and used rdist, rsync and perforce to do the distribution. The bottom line is that taking the name people have standardized on for installing *local* packages and installing system-provided packages there is a bad thing(TM). None of the solutions I used suffered from that flaw. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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