From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 14:17: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54E5B157A6 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xela@MIT.EDU) Received: from BIOHAZARD-CAFE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06298; Fri, 20 Aug 99 17:16:50 EDT Received: (from xela@localhost) by biohazard-cafe.mit.edu (8.9.3) id RAA07519; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:16:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199908202116.RAA07519@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: controlling where ports install? Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:16:49 -0400 From: Alex Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi--- I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, coming from a mostly NetBSD background. One thing NetBSD does that I like is that the package system (ports in FreeBSD parlance) installs into a seperate path (/usr/pkg) rather than into /usr/local/. (Please no flames. I thought the NetBSD approach was stupid at first and just made /usr/pkg a symlink to /usr/local. After some experience I decided the other way was better --- having stuff I've installed by hand segregated from stuff installed by the package system has IMHO its merits. YMMV.) At any rate, I'm wondering whether the location where FreeBSD installs ports can be set by some environment variable or other straightforward mechanism? Thanks in advance, ---Alex Carl Alexander ------------- MIT (where Alex hangs out): xela@mit.edu Course VI (sometime special student) SIPB (prospective) Mitgaard ("honorary mold") MITSFS LSC (night worker) http://www.mit.edu/~xela ------------- Work (where they call me 'Carl'): carl@terc.edu System Administrator & User Services Manager, TERC http://www.terc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message