Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:51:00 -0700 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: dima@unixfreak.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing a port to a differant location than the default Message-ID: <39E01954.6D2C2A9C@wiegand.org> References: <14815.43020.536133.284102@guru.mired.org> <20001007225515.6513A1F21@static.unixfreak.org> <14815.49302.502834.299094@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > > Dima Dorfman writes: > > > Dima Dorfman writes: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:37:38AM -0700, Chip wrote: > > > > > > I have several hard disks in my pc, with the standard /usr on the > > > > > > first disk with the standard directories, but the other two disks > > > > > > are setup as /usr2 and /usr3. Is there a way to install a port or > > > > > > package into one either /usr2 or /usr3? > > > > > pkg_add -p <prefix> or setting $PREFIX for /usr/ports. > > > > Or, if that doesn't work (I tried using PREFIX= some time ago but it > > > > didn't change the prefix), try: > > > Some ports are broken, and don't honor PREFIX. Worse yet, some are > > > partly broken, and have some things that install in PREFIX, and some > > > that install in /usr/local. > > I don't know about PREFIX, but DESTDIR always seems to work for me. > > Prefix seems to work about 80% the time for me. Since all DESTDIR > really does is set LOCALBASE (and things that depend on it - like > PREFIX), I'd expect it to be about the same. > > DESTDIR doesn't seem to solve those problems. For instance, > sysutils/idled *insists* that it's going to install things in > /usr/local. Setting neither PREFIX nor DESTDIR corrects this. As a > result, when it tries to strip the installed binary (from the right > place), it doesn't work. > > <mike > I used the following command in the /usr/ports/misc/less directory - make DESTDIR=/usr2 install and it didn't install to /usr2, and there were no changes or files written to /usr2 at all. So I then tried to install amanda the same way, and it did create a new usr directory in /usr2, with lots of subdirectories, and appeared to install amanda, I see the files there, but nothing runs. When I run pkg_delete to remove amanda it responds with errors about 'perhaps the directory doesn't really exist', many many times. I can see the directory. But then I don't really care about that. Just thought I'd report my findings. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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