Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:54:49 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where should "contrib" scripts and utilities be installed? Message-ID: <20080610005448.GC58305@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <E7DE7397-7024-4CDF-B2EC-ABFA5880C879@goldmark.org> References: <E7DE7397-7024-4CDF-B2EC-ABFA5880C879@goldmark.org>
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Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:
> When some project includes a contrib/ directory with its source where
> should those canonically be installed?
>
> /usr/local/share/$PORT
>
> or
>
> /usr/local/share/doc/$PORT
>
> or someplace else.
>
> In particular, I'm planing on submitting a patch to sysutils/rsnapshot port
> to also install, somewhere, the contrib directly that comes out of the
> tarball.
The existence of ports with a "-contrib" suffix suggests you may need to
create a distinct port for the contrib files. databases/postgresql-contrib,
for example.
--
Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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