Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:31:00 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install locations of packages Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010531210100.00b51d98@mail.cz> In-Reply-To: <20010531110341.C23522@johncoop> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010531195121.00b49db8@mail.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20010531195121.00b49db8@mail.cz>
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Hi John,
thank you for your reply. However, tcsh isn't important
at all. What I was actually asking (sorry for confusing you)
was: Is there a way to get a package install to a different
location than it is supposed to go? I know about the -p switch,
but for example bash-2.05.tgz installs the binary to
/usr/local/bin/ and the man page to /usr/local/man/man1/
Now, $ whereis csh revealed that csh is in /bin/ and
/usr/share/man/man1/. Since the default prefix for the bash
package I'm talking about (but that's just an example) is
/usr/local/, I suppose that if I install the package with
# pkg_add -p / bash-2.05.tgz, it'll install the man page to
/man/man1/, right?
My question is really about maintenance of installed packages,
not about a specific single one. I'm looking for advice about
the simplest way of modifying installed packages (which will
preserve the ability to uninstall packages with pkg_delete(1)).
I know I should do more RTFM excercises, but I thought someone
could share their experience. (Seems like I could either extract
such a package with -M and then install it with -S, or recreate
it with pkg_create(1), but both options look like too much of
overkill to me.)
At 11:03 31.5. 2001 -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
>On 2001.05.31 10:54 Cynic wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've installed FreeBSD 4.3, and added bash and tcsh (btw,
> > /stand/sysinstall didn't mark tcsh as installed though it
> > was). These got installed to /usr/local/bin/, but I'd
> > rather have them in /bin/. I could just move them, but
> > then I won't be able to remove them. I have had a look at
> > /var/db/pkg/, and it looks like the locations are hashed
> > with MD5. Will it be enough to edit the +<files> with the
> > new locations _and_ new hashes, or is the integrity
> > checked elsewhere? As I said, I want to be able to remove
> > the packages with pkg_delete(1).
> >
> > Better yet -- where will the man page get installed if I
> > install e. g. bash with # pkg_add -p / bash-2.05.tgz ?
> > Because normally it goes to /usr/local/bin and
> > /usr/local/man/man1/ (hope I have the locations right, no
> > freebsd system around here), while I want it in /bin/ and
> > /usr/share/man/man1/. I guess I'll have to edit the install
> > script, right?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >
> > cynic@mail.cz
> > -------------
> > And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
> > were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files.
> > - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7
> >
> >
>
>Upon reading the documentation for the tcsh port, you'll discover that
>all it does is create a symlink to csh (which is really tcsh). Your
>hacking is thus unnecessary.
>
>jmc
>
>P.S. Please excuse the duplicates (if any). After working just fine
>for quite awhile, something screwy has decided to happen with my
>sendmail. :)
>
>jmc
>
>
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And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files.
- Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7
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