Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:43:43 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Kostas Oikonomou <k.oikonomou@att.net> Cc: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can pkg be used to install in /opt? Message-ID: <20140129204342.GC54904@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <52E96680.9070208@att.net> References: <52E9496E.2030702@att.net> <52E96680.9070208@att.net>
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--LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:37:20PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > Matthew, Mark, thanks for replying. >=20 > I ended up editing the Makefile of /usr/ports/math/goblin to set PREFIX > =3D /opt/local, and installed the port. >=20 > Still, it seems to me that the ability to install a package to a > different prefix is, occasionally, useful. > What was the reason for removing it from pkg, when pkg_add had it? The reason is that relocatable packages are broken by design because build process hard code path at build time too often Bapt --LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlLpZ/4ACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwcGwCggEuGUhHstzTG9f7upEyGSykw 6WwAoLjcnU/PhTFTSVV+O8YBEIeCFuet =m60b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK--
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