Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:19:41 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PREFIX in pkg-install (cricket-1.0.4.p1) Message-ID: <20030503171941.GJ25227@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030504023546.A381@welearn.com.au> References: <20030504023546.A381@welearn.com.au>
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>> (05.03.2003 @ 0935 PST): Sue Blake said, in 1.1K: <<
> When I installed net/cricket-1.0.4.p1 the cricket user was added
> with the home directory /cricket which seemed a little odd.
>
> My cricket port is a couple of months old, but of the same vintage
> as the one on the ports web site.
> My ports tree is not in good order so I could have a problem at my end,
> but it made me curious about the use of PREFIX.
>
> In pkg-install the pw useradd command uses -d "${PREFIX}/cricket"
>
> Grepping other pkg-install files, I see that PREFIX is set before
> it is used, e.g.
>
> ../cvsupit/pkg-install: PREFIX=/usr/local
>
> ../jabber/pkg-install: etcdir=${PREFIX:-$PKG_PREFIX}/etc
>
> ../nrpe/pkg-install:PKG_PREFIX=${PKG_PREFIX:=/usr/local}
> ../nrpe/pkg-install: /usr/sbin/pw useradd ${user} -g ${group} -h - -d ${PKG_PREFIX}/var/nagios \
>
>
> Is it necessary, or helpful, to add something similar for cricket?
>> end of "PREFIX in pkg-install (cricket-1.0.4.p1)" from Sue Blake <<
Very true. I've patched it in the Makefile. Thanks!
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