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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:26:54 +0100
From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
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Subject: pkg create, +MANIFEST and prefix (pkg 1.1.4)
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Hi,

what is the exact role of "prefix" in +MANIFEST? pkg-create(8) says:

prefix path-prefix
    The path where the files contained in this package are
    installed (usually /usr/local).

Given the following MANIFEST

...
prefix: /usr/local/mypath
...
files:
  relativepath/myfile:checksum...

I would expect it to end up
in /usr/local/mypath/relativepath/myfile, but instead it gets
installed in `pwd`/myfile.

Is this a bug or do I misunderstand what prefix is supposed to do?

Thanks,
Michael

-- 
Michael Gmelin