Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:30:54 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Oliver Fischer <plexus@snafu.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up a ports infrastructure outside of /usr/ports Message-ID: <20040422073054.GB26669@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4086F18A.8010100@snafu.de> References: <4086F18A.8010100@snafu.de>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:11:22AM +0200, Oliver Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
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> I would like to ports some programs but before I will start, I would=20
> like to have a separate directory for it. So so my question is:
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> Is it possible:
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> 1. to have the ports directory in my home directory? I
> think yes.
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> 2. to build and to install a port as normal user to
> a via PREFIX specified directory?
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> 3. to use a different pkgdb directory than /var/db/pkg for
> the ports build in this manner?
Sure. That's all possible. When I'm working on ports I just stick
the port directory in my home dir and set up a bunch of environment
variables so I don't trample over the official /var/db/pkg (or try to
-- I work on the development stuff under my own UID, not root).
I generally just source this into my tcsh session:
# -*- csh -*-
#
# Set up environment for testing ports
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setenv WRKDIRPREFIX ${HOME}/tmp/ports
setenv PKG_DBDIR ${HOME}/tmp/db/pkgs
setenv PORT_DBDIR ${HOME}/tmp/db/ports
setenv PREFIX ${HOME}/tmp/local
setenv INSTALL_AS_USER yes
setenv NOCLEANDEPENDS yes
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unsetenv JAVA_HOME
Not that this still expects bsd.port.mk and all of the makefiles to
live in /usr/ports/Mk -- as well as any dependency ports.
Cheers,
Matthew
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