Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:50:09 GMT From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1) Message-ID: <201107160250.p6G2o97K004460@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/158179; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
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Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option
in pkg_add(1)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:43:42 -0500
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?
Stephen
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