On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Juha Saarinen wrote:
On 10/11/06, Desmond Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah. I used to do Solaris admin (Jesus, you'd never know
it...), and usually prefer installing software the ./configure -->
make && make install route. Especially since a ports install
doesn't tell you anything about where the software is put....
It most certainly does, and also allows you to change the locations of
the software to be installed. Have a look at the Makefile in the
ports.
While theoretically you can change the location where stuff is put
using ports, it does not always work out that well (I admit I could
have screwed up). Mainly, some ports rely on other ports. I
installed a bunch of stuff (gnu build stuff) that some ports relied
on in my own dir /usr/public as a prefix. The ports system should
know about this (ie at later install time) but certain ports that
rely on this stuff seem to have it hardwired that this stuff is in /
usr/local and these ports fail. So may ports can easily be changed,
some ports can't.
I use ports for things like build tools, system tools, editors,
compilers. and certain standard SW we use. I use configure/make etc
for my MTA, apache, php, my imap and pop servers, and lots of my
service level software that I find much easier to customize myself
without jumping through ports.
best
Chad
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Juha
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