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Date:      Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:47:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing a port to a differant location than the default
Message-ID:  <14815.43020.536133.284102@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <34179051@toto.iv>

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Dima Dorfman writes:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:37:38AM -0700, Chip wrote:
> > > I have several hard disks in my pc, with the standard /usr on the
> > > first disk with the standard directories, but the other two disks 
> > > are setup as /usr2 and /usr3. Is there a way to install a port or
> > > package into one either /usr2 or /usr3?
> > pkg_add -p <prefix> or setting $PREFIX for /usr/ports.
> Or, if that doesn't work (I tried using PREFIX= some time ago but it
> didn't change the prefix), try:

Some ports are broken, and don't honor PREFIX. Worse yet, some are
partly broken, and have some things that install in PREFIX, and some
that install in /usr/local.

If you run into such, please at least PR them. Including a patch in
the PR would be even better.

	<mike


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