Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:41:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: marquis@roble.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH2 (in FreeBSD-Questions) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990604173528.15420r-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <96085.928510202@verdi.nethelp.no>
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A reason that comes to mind is having /usr/local/bin on NFS and ssh not. You need it locally if you want to start sshd from rc* before NFS is mounted. The problem is however that if you want to make ports customisable you will have to duplicate part of the functionality in ./configure. Are there things like $ETCDIR, $BINDIR, $SBINDIR, etc. in use in the ports collection? That would make it possible to make the make command look like: cd /usr/ports/security/ssh2 make BASEDIR=/usr/local/ssh \ ETCDIR=/usr/local/etc Nick On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > One thing ports don't do well is install themselves in predictable > > locations. Instead you'll find them installing files in > > /usr/local/etc, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/libexec, > > /var, etc. When I install ssh2 I want it all under /usr/local/ssh. > > This alone is a good reason to use ports sparingly (after reviewing the > > patches). > > Having everything under /usr/local/ssh is convenient in many way, but > I don't believe there is any kind of agreement that this is *the* only > correct way. Myself, I'm happy to have ssh, ssh-keygen etc. under > /usr/local/bin (actually /local/bin here) and sshd under /usr/local/sbin. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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