2008/5/25 Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/5/25 Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Are they equivalent? I would expect them to be different - I would (at >>> the very least) expect the opensolaris.org one to deliver its bits into >>> /usr, and the blastwave one to deliver into /opt/csw. >>> >>> And if I published my own ant package, it would (and very deliberately >>> so) deliver its bits somewhere different from the one from my OS vendor. >> >> Actually, I believe the intent here is that everything really does >> deliver its bits into the same place. > > Surely not. That way madness lies. > >> As the person installing the packages, if you want them to install >> into /opt/csw instead, you would just do: >> >> pkg image-create -F -a authname=http://blastwave.org /opt/csw >> >> Then: >> >> pkg -R /opt/csw install ant >> >> As such, there's really no reason for the bits to deliver themselves >> into /opt/csw, etc. > > The two cases aren't the same - the root is a different concept to the > install prefix.
Depends on what your intent is. As far as blastwave is concerned, /opt/csw might as well be an alternate root. I suspect this bug may be related to your "install prefix" desires: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1 -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
