Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:30:10 GMT From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> 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: <201107160930.p6G9UAJE001776@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/158179; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org,
freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com,
current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:26:46 +0200
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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
Stefan
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Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811
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