Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 23:33:17 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Adam Glass <adam@clarity.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using an alternate install prefix Message-ID: <20030420063317.GA75743@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030420062325.GB28069@sea.clarity.net> References: <20030420062325.GB28069@sea.clarity.net>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 11:23:25PM -0700, Adam Glass wrote: > (Background: I'm a NetBSD user, experimenting a bit with FreeBSD on > one of my systems.) >=20 > One of the things that I really like about NetBSD's "pkgsrc" > (analagous to the ports collection) is that it installs its packages > into /usr/pkg. This is nice because it keeps files managed/created by > the packaging system separate from files managed/created "by hand" by > the local administrator. I'd like to get this same behavior out of > FreeBSD's ports collection, if possible. Specifically, I'd like to > have ports install things into a path other than /usr/local. >=20 > One of my friends suggested that I add "LOCALBASE=3D/usr/pkg" to > /etc/make.conf. Will this be sufficient? Are there any other > ramifications to this that I should be aware of? No, you need to set PREFIX as well. Some ports do not respect PREFIX, but that's a bug that should be reported via send-pr. =20 Kris --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+oj8tWry0BWjoQKURAhABAJ9lhuySmOBmm16ASbb0uYS+4gdCDwCdEhD/ tmfJebLvorpcXuC6HJfAroE= =Tz/0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--
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