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Date:      Sun, 06 Feb 2000 01:40:43 +0900
From:      Issei Suzuki <issei@issei.org>
To:        suzukis@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to develop a port/package without root previlege?
Message-ID:  <20000206014043K.issei@issei.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000205162528.6604.qmail@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp>
References:  <20000205162528.6604.qmail@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp>

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In mail "How to develop a port/package without root previlege?"
suzukis@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp wrote:

> If there's any wrong destination in Makefile (by careless mistake),
> making installation with root previlege can gives unrecovervable
> damage to the credencial (which files came from which ports/package,
> which files conflicts with which ports/package, etc etc).

  Set ${DESTDIR}, and all files are installed to the subdirectory of
${DESTDIR}.

Note:
  Some ports ignore ${DESTDIR}, and these should be fixed.


Issei.-


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