Mel Flynn wrote:
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote:
Mel Flynn writes:
> Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I
> can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible
> for one reason oranother, place to download application source to?
Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or
~/svn, where src are the tarballs + their extracted source and
cvs/svn checkouts and/or exports.
I have never done this, but if I were running a private ports
tree I would be tempted to root it (if not on a separate partition)
at "/usr/priv_ports" or something similar and have the structure
minic /usr/ports whereever possible. The name would then be
semi-intuitive, and a simple change of a few environment variables
(perhaps in the login file of an account dedicated to working on
those ports) would be all it took to change the framework.
A private portstree (as in: uses the ports framework for compiling and
installing software, including registering the port in /var/db/pkg) is best
kept in /usr/ports/local. One needs to set VALID_CATEGORIES=local in
/etc/make.conf and optionally add SUBDIR+=local in /usr/ports/Makefile.local
if one cares about the ports ending up in the INDEX and make search.
Ideally software not registering itself inside /var/db/pkg (as in software
compiled by hand) should NOT be installed in $LOCALBASE (/usr/local by
default) as there is no guarantee through the ports CONFLICTS mechanism, that
a port overwrites files installed by your hand-compiled software.
Many thanks to all who have helped on this one.
I managed to get wine installed without X and it works :) However my
application doesn't :(
Most of the errors are concerned with MS Visual C++ libraries, which I
have unconfirmed indications might be solved with 'winetricks'
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. However, I think using winetricks
means I need X anyway. So, I will leave it for now and try again after a
bit more research.
Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps -
the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have
never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in
that direction. However I find the other answers very useful insights
too. Given that winetricks calls itself a 'quick and dirty script',
along with the fact that the current wine port doesn't work, I think I
see another manual installation coming on.
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