From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 4 3:31:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB5CD37B403 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 03:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 29659 invoked by uid 202); 4 Jul 2001 10:31:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 10:31:46 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010704123024.01f655f8@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:40:01 +0200 To: "David W. Chapman Jr." From: Cynic Subject: Re: samba port install failure... general question Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010704045442.C11575@leviathan.inethouston.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010704111952.01f655f8@mail.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20010701231030.020399d0@mail.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20010704111952.01f655f8@mail.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi David, thank you for your replies. At 11:54 7/4/2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >> I don't understand why this is so. The ports stuff requires one to be >> logged in as root anyway, so why should it be designed so that one cannot >> install a port where they want? > >It does, just not anywhere they want in /usr/local/somewhere I guess this was meant to make sure a port install doesn't screw up other software, which is a Good Thing(TM). But I can't see what harm could be done by creating a dir under PREFIX wich is below /usr/local itself. Is this really by design? >> >/usr/local/samba, just download the tarball and compile it to avoid this >> >problem if you absolutely need it in /usr/local/samba, but that's not the >> >best place for it, where the port puts it is probably the place you would >> >want it 95% of the time. >> >> Well, that depends, I guess. Clobbering /usr/local with loads of software >> is not what I'd like to achieve. > >Then I would have to say ports system is not for you. This would be a pitty. I'll try to disable this particular thing (hopefully it's triggered at one place). >> Is this documented anywhere? And what is the rationale? I surely couldn't >> find anything related in the Handbook or Porter's Handbook. >> >It may be, I'm not really sure. Can anyone on the list point me to some resources? Best regards, cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message