On 07/16/2011 04:26 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote:
Am 16.07.2011 um 04:43 schrieb Stephen Montgomery-Smith:I was looking through the source code of pkg_add. Personally I don't see how the "-P" or "-p" option could be made to work with pkg_add. Many of the installation commands involve scripts which have ${PREFIX} hard coded into them. ${PREFIX} is often hard coded when trhe package is created by the port. In my opinion, the options "-p" and "-P" should be removed from pkg_add. Either that, or provide the port a way to access "@cwd" in any scripts it installs. But this would require a major overhaul of the whole ports system, and probably much of the software it installs as well. Am I missing something?Yes. Not honoring the prefix is a bug in the port. If you do need to do prefix-specific things during install, use pkg-install, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/pkg-install.html I suspect that many ports are not well tested outside of "/usr/local", but the infrastructure is there and available.
You are correct, this needs to be done on a port by port basis. In some ports this is going to be a big job, because in some cases the "/usr/local" is hard coded into certain binaries.
For example, suppose the C source code contains something like: char applications_dir = "/usr/local/share/applications"; and this is filled in by the ./configure script. How is that handled? _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
