Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:20:14 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: <201107161620.p6GGKEAV081475@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>
To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Cc: "freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com" <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>,
FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>,
"bug-followup@freebsd.org" <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>,
Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option
in pkg_add(1)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:18:09 -0500
current@ to ports@ again. (Sorry, my mistake.)
On 07/16/2011 11:10 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
>
> On 16 Jul 2011 17:04, "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@missouri.edu
> <mailto:stephen@missouri.edu>> wrote:
> >
> > On 07/16/2011 10:53 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16 Jul 2011 16:38, "Stephen Montgomery-Smith"
> <stephen@missouri.edu <mailto:stephen@missouri.edu>
> >> <mailto:stephen@missouri.edu <mailto:stephen@missouri.edu>>> wrote:
> >> > 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?
> >> >
> >>
> >> It's not.
> >>
> >> Remember what a package is, literally the files from the plist tarred
> >> with some magic +FILEs and the pkg-*install files- if paths are
> >> hardcoded in objects that's how it'll be installed.
> >
> >
> > What if some of the installation programs are binaries, and
> "/usr/local" is hard coded into installation binaries or scripts
> provided by the software itself.
>
> Sorry, poor wording on my part.
No, I didn't read what you said properly.
> If it was compiled as prefix=/usr/local, that's how it'll be installed,
> regardless of your -p argument.
So "-p" and "-P" are inherently buggy, and should be removed from pkg_add?
(Or every port which uses prefix=/usr/local needs major revision and
patching, which I think is an intolerable workload.)
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