Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> writes: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:41:31 +0000, Dieter BSD wrote: >>> 1. Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, >>> for >>> example? >> >> Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose. >> > > Corrupting the pkgdb there is a chroot option for that
You would need to set the DBDIR to manage the databases properly (which makes sense because there really is a separate set of ports living in the jail). I agree about the chroot option, though; I do not see any reason that one would ever use -P rather than -C for populating a jail from the outside. >> Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the >> existing version. >> > > it will mess up the database either One would just use a different database. As I said, that makes sense. This thread has already heard from one person who successfully uses the "-P" option for this purpose, so it's definitely useful to someone. >> There are bound to be other reasons. >> >> Compiling the port rather than installing a package isn't always >> a solution. Many ports are incredibly difficult to get compiled. >> >> PREFIX needs to be an install time variable, not compile time. > > PREFIX at install time is just broken and can't be anything else than > broken, because lot's of path given a build time configuration path > for example, etc. Yes. In general, packages just can't be placed anywhere other than where they were built for, and we can't do anything about that in the ports infrastructure. _______________________________________________ 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"
