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
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