From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 12:56:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd1.firestorm2000.com (freebsd1.firestorm2000.com [204.141.99.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC1437BFDD for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danm@firestorm2000.com) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost) by freebsd1.firestorm2000.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA99537; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:03:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from danm@firestorm2000.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:03:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin" To: Paul Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: erk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try man ports I don't recall it offhand but I've used it to install ports when I don't have root. On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: > > ok.. sorry to bug you with this but i've search freebsdrocks.com, > daemonnews.org, etc. etc. and can't find this anywhere. I remember seeing > some environment variable that you can set to force a port to install > under a certain directory hierarchy. would you be able to tell me what > that is? > > basically i want to install the new apache + php + mod_perl and maybe > mysql from ports instead of how i usually do it (long, arduous tinkering > with apache source). but i don't want it to install all over my > /usr/local tree, i just want it all to install into /usr/local/newapache > or somesuch. > > Regards, > Paul > > http://www.tribble.net/ > > "Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls > done, In kernel as it is in user!" -fortune > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message