Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:18:27 -0800 From: Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: spreculative: /bin2 & /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees? Message-ID: <4B8BF6E3.3040009@telting.org>
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Just wondering if anyone cares to share their thoughts about this. There are a few ports that I would love to see included in the base tree such as OpenLDAP and the Openbsd pdksh or bash. But It hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So I was thinking about the pkg infrastructure. The location of the pkg file database I believe can be specified. And the installation directories I believe can also be specified. Other than that paths would have to be changed for binaries and libraries and probably share and other installation points. This should allow separate package trees meaning that when I delete and reinstall my main ports these programs will not be affected and the package database info for these will not be screwed up. Is it possible and if it is has anyone implemented it on their own systems? Or have people simply taken to installing ports in the main directories? Chris
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