On 05/30/15 10:32, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
On May 30, 2015 11:18:44 AM EDT, "William A. Mahaffey III" <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 05/30/15 09:02, Gerard Lally wrote:
I posted the following question here, to netbsd-users, instead of
pkgsrc-users because it is connected to that thread.
What is the correct way to ensure pkgsrc binaries and libraries are
used instead of their equivalents in base? For example, after
installing
pkgsrc groff I now have groff, grn, grodvi, grog and more in both
/usr/bin and /usr/pkg/bin. Do I create multiple aliases, or just
change
$PATH so that /usr/pkg/bin is before /usr/bin? For user, and/or root?
Would changing $PATH create other problems elsewhere?
I realise this is basic UNIX stuff I should understand better; it's
just that I would like to know the standard or correct way of doing
it.
Unless someone else more knowledgeable says otherwise, I would put
/usr/pkg/bin ahead of /usr/bin for all users you want it that way & set
sail. Generally, you can put more specific directories ahead of the
most
general directories in your path shell variables, that is what most
commercial packages do in their install scripts, & it is what I prefer.
I've found that having copies of programs in the base when you want to be using
the pkgsrc ones is fairly error prone. If simply changing the PATH works for
you great, but I've needed to take a more heavy handed approach in the past.
In an ideal world the base groff would be recorded in a form where you could
just pkg_delete it, but since it's not I'd recommend deleting the unneeded
binaries by hand.
Eric
This is quite feasible as well, a bit more work, & he would have to
remember to repeat the cleansing whenever his base was upgraded. More
than 1 way to skin the cat ;-) ....
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