From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 24 09:55:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BDE106564A for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:55:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4F48FC08 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2O9tCSM096174 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:55:13 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.0 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q2O9tCSM096174 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q2O9tCSM096174; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none Message-ID: <4F6D99F7.2010103@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:55:03 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <4F6CE755.8020502@FreeBSD.org> <4F6D07C0.5040602@freebsd.org> <4F6D0BF9.2090700@acsalaska.net> In-Reply-To: <4F6D0BF9.2090700@acsalaska.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig858DE6DBCF91328F5FBE8B65" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Subject: Re: How useful is %%DATADIR%%, anyway? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:55:19 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig858DE6DBCF91328F5FBE8B65 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23/03/2012 23:49, Mel Flynn wrote: > I think even more space can be saved if a PORTWWW is introduced, though= > PORTWWW=3D* should be used more carefully as WWWDIR can be dynamic. I've been maintaining databases/phpmyadmin and several others essentially like this for years. It works nicely, but there is a gotcha you tend to run into with web applications: they usually have config files within the web tree which the admin will modify, and you have to avoid gratuitously blowing their changes away. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig858DE6DBCF91328F5FBE8B65 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9tmf8ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwZYQCeMneszEl76lUfDw4TWzcjrynP KGAAoIrJniunGK2GBp/q3EDO0gIByeWx =tKLx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig858DE6DBCF91328F5FBE8B65--