Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:40:01 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba port install failure... general question Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010704123024.01f655f8@mail.cz> 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>
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Hi David,
thank you for your replies.
At 11:54 7/4/2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote the following:
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>> 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
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And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
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