Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:55:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing a port to a differant location than the default Message-ID: <20001007225515.6513A1F21@static.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <14815.43020.536133.284102@guru.mired.org> "from Mike Meyer at Oct 7, 2000 05:47:40 pm"
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> Dima Dorfman writes: > > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:37:38AM -0700, Chip wrote: > > > > I have several hard disks in my pc, with the standard /usr on the > > > > first disk with the standard directories, but the other two disks > > > > are setup as /usr2 and /usr3. Is there a way to install a port or > > > > package into one either /usr2 or /usr3? > > > pkg_add -p <prefix> or setting $PREFIX for /usr/ports. > > Or, if that doesn't work (I tried using PREFIX= some time ago but it > > didn't change the prefix), try: > > Some ports are broken, and don't honor PREFIX. Worse yet, some are > partly broken, and have some things that install in PREFIX, and some > that install in /usr/local. I don't know about PREFIX, but DESTDIR always seems to work for me. -- Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Finger dima@unixfreak.org for my public PGP key. Life would be much easier if we could just read the source code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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