Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:17:09 -0600 (CST) From: Rich Winkel <rich@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5 ports don't respect LOCALBASE Message-ID: <200311161817.hAGIH9xr075385@pencil.math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <44fzgrt5b9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> "from Lowell Gilbert at Nov 14, 2003 09:04:10 am"
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According to Lowell Gilbert: > Rich Winkel <rich@math.missouri.edu> writes: > > > I support various types of servers and workstations which need > > different "local" software sets. I do all my building on one > > machine, so I use LOCALBASE and PKG_DBDIR in /etc/make.conf to > > keep the various configurations separate. Unfortunately many ports > > don't respect the LOCALBASE setting and install into /usr/local, > > even while recording the packing list as being in LOCALBASE! > > > > The p5 ports seem especially bad about this. I understand the > > need for perl to be able to find its local packages, so after I > > manually fix things up I need to know how to tell perl to look > > for its stuff under LOCALBASE instead of /usr/local. Can someone > > tell me? > > > > Or alternatively, has someone else found a better way to deal with > > the whole problem of maintaining different software sets?? > > This is really a ports question, so I'm redirecting there. > > Apparently you're dealing with bugs in the ports, but it's hard to be > sure without more details. Can you give a specific example? Thanks for the reply! I've had such problems with spamassassin-milter and also apsprint. Rich
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