Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:37:53 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: "freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com" <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, "bug-followup@freebsd.org" <bug-followup@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1) Message-ID: <4E21B051.5040502@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <DD9FE189-F4F2-4BE7-80C3-2951649D4291@lassitu.de> References: <4E20FADE.6060103@missouri.edu> <DD9FE189-F4F2-4BE7-80C3-2951649D4291@lassitu.de>
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On 07/16/2011 04:26 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 16.07.2011 um 04:43 schrieb Stephen Montgomery-Smith:
>
>> I was looking through the source code of pkg_add. Personally I don't see how the "-P" or "-p" option could be made to work with pkg_add. Many of the installation commands involve scripts which have ${PREFIX} hard coded into them. ${PREFIX} is often hard coded when trhe package is created by the port. In my opinion, the options "-p" and "-P" should be removed from pkg_add.
>>
>> Either that, or provide the port a way to access "@cwd" in any scripts it installs. But this would require a major overhaul of the whole ports system, and probably much of the software it installs as well.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> Yes. Not honoring the prefix is a bug in the port. If you do need to do prefix-specific things during install, use pkg-install, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/pkg-install.html
>
> I suspect that many ports are not well tested outside of "/usr/local", but the infrastructure is there and available.
You are correct, this needs to be done on a port by port basis. In some
ports this is going to be a big job, because in some cases the
"/usr/local" is hard coded into certain binaries.
For example, suppose the C source code contains something like:
char applications_dir = "/usr/local/share/applications";
and this is filled in by the ./configure script.
How is that handled?
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