On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:29:22AM +0400, Anonymous wrote: > a little confusion arised from ports/146627. > > The Porter's Handbook defines PREFIX as the place where port should > install its files including config files. However, it doesn't say where > the port should try to read its config files that may not exist: > LOCALBASE/etc or PREFIX/etc? Until recently I assumed such files as > installed together with the port unless they belong to some other port. > > For example, many GNU_CONFIGURE ports look for config files under > SYSCONFDIR that's usually under PREFIX/etc and some of them don't > install config files nor samples. A few examples: xorg-server, > subversion, git. Should such ports be modified to use LOCALBASE/etc?
PREFIX/etc is the correct place. Very few ports touch LOCALBASE at all, and when they do it's explicitly requested. I'm thinking of bind here as an example. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
