Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 04:50:16 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports question Message-ID: <20011124045016.K26507@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <15358.62639.120617.643049@guru.mired.org> References: <122552244@toto.iv> <15358.62639.120617.643049@guru.mired.org>
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> From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:15:27 -0600
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> CC: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: /usr/ports question
>
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> types:
> > > From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
> > > Bara Zani <bara_zani@yahoo.com> types:
> > > > Hi ,
> > > > I want to change the default install options of a certain port , how
> > > > can i do that ?
> > > If you're talking about location, use PREFIX. That's the top of the
> > > tree for installs, so binariexz go in $PREFIX/bin, man pages in
> > > $PREFIX/man, and so on. However, changing the PREFIX for just one
> > > port isn't very safe - you really should make them *all* install with
> > > the same PREFIX, which you do by setting LOCALBASE in
> > > /etc/make.conf. Even then, some ports will break for one reason or
> > > another because they don't handle the change properly.
> > This has always made me wonder: the install prefix of every port is
> > recorded in /var/db/pkg/<port-name>/+CONTENTS. Why isn't this
> > information used?
>
> It is used - how do you think pkg_delte finds the files to delete.
>
> If there's some other use you meant, you should say what it is.
>
> <mike
What I meant was it surprises me (I must be missing something obvious) that
the actual install prefixes of dependencies aren't taken from the +CONTENTS
files.
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