Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:57:25 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> Cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: preferred place for system-wide config files Message-ID: <20100518195725.GB48168@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <86hbm5vycg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86hbm5yjjh.fsf@gmail.com> <20100518115611.GA45921@atarininja.org> <4BF28470.2050903@infracaninophile.co.uk> <86hbm5vycg.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:50:07PM +0400, Anonymous wrote: > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > > > On 18/05/2010 12:56:11, Wesley Shields wrote: > >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:29:22AM +0400, Anonymous wrote: > >>> a little confusion arised from ports/146627. > >>> > >>> The Porter's Handbook defines PREFIX as the place where port should > >>> install its files including config files. However, it doesn't say where > >>> the port should try to read its config files that may not exist: > >>> LOCALBASE/etc or PREFIX/etc? Until recently I assumed such files as > >>> installed together with the port unless they belong to some other port. > >>> > >>> For example, many GNU_CONFIGURE ports look for config files under > >>> SYSCONFDIR that's usually under PREFIX/etc and some of them don't > >>> install config files nor samples. A few examples: xorg-server, > >>> subversion, git. Should such ports be modified to use LOCALBASE/etc? > >> > >> PREFIX/etc is the correct place. Very few ports touch LOCALBASE at all, > >> and when they do it's explicitly requested. I'm thinking of bind here as > >> an example. > > > > The principle is that PREFIX is where *this* port is going to be > > installed, but LOCALBASE is where you should assume any prior dependency > > ports have been installed. > > This still doesn't clarify where to look for files that are *not* > installed, e.g. config files. Such files can be created by user and only > used by the port itself when they exist. Does it matter whether they're > installed or not to choose LOCALBASE over PREFIX? PREFIX. -- WXS
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