Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:35:35 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Adam <freebsd@mygeotivity.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Bug (Nagios) Message-ID: <3EE0D0E7.4010009@acm.org> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030606101523.02502008@mail.mygeotivity.com>
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Adam wrote:
> I found a bug in the /ports/net/naios port. More correctly, I think it
> would be in /ports/net/nagios-plugins.
>
> I had Postgres 7.2 installed on my system. I did this manually from
> source. It seems that when you choose to have postgres support for
> nagios, it doesn't check to see if the library exists, but instead looks
> to see if the port was installed. This resulted in my install getting
> clobbered, directory permissions getting reassigned and my database
> going down.
A lot of ports have this problem. For example,
I saw it recently with py-MySQLdb, which attempted
to re-install MySQL for me. <ugh>
Fortunately, I've long ago learned an important lesson:
If you compile software manually, do NOT install
it in /usr/local. Otherwise, the FreeBSD ports/package
system will happily blow it away for you.
Of course, if you install it elsewhere, then ports won't
find it and will install a new version in /usr/local anyway.
At least this way your custom version won't get destroyed.
Tim Kientzle
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