From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 15 23:02:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AA916A4E0 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:02:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from babak@farrokhi.net) Received: from Plesk.datak.net (plesk.datak-telecom.net [81.91.129.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB64943D81 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:02:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babak@farrokhi.net) Received: (qmail 20311 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2006 03:32:36 +0430 Received: from unknown (HELO ELF) (213.207.248.204) by webmail.datak-telecom.com with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) SMTP; 16 Jul 2006 03:32:35 +0430 From: "Babak Farrokhi" To: "'Shaun Amott'" , References: <000001c6a662$bce0e920$36a2bb60$@net> <20060713183619.GA3818@picobyte.net> In-Reply-To: <20060713183619.GA3818@picobyte.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:32:20 +0330 Message-ID: <008f01c6a862$c3426e90$49c74bb0$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Acamq6e22ideEvygRkOFO7yscxsq1QBthHEg Content-Language: en-us Cc: Subject: RE: Installation directory best practices X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:02:46 -0000 > > I tend to use WWWDIR (which excludes PREFIX); but as you say, there is > no consistency amongst ports. > [Babak Farrokhi] It is perhaps a good idea to add WWWDIR variable to bsd.port.mk and add a hint to porters-handbook so that all web apps are preferred to install in WWWDIR. It would also be nice if portlint(1) complains if a port installs directly into www/data or www/data-dist.