On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote:
> John Baldwin writes:
> ;->On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote:
> ;->> I still curse at regular intervals at the ports/packages
> collection
> ;->> installing things in /usr/local. That means I need another place
> for
> ;->> things that I maintain, instead of came with FreeBSD. Putting
> ;->> everything in /usr is one such solution. /opt is another (but
> having
> ;->> everything have it's own hierarchy pretty much sucks).
> ;->Try maintaining a lab of 40-80 identical machines. Then imagine
> ;->distributing /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 via NFS. Then you only
> have to
> ;->install the package on one machine to install it everywhere. That
> ;->doesn't work when installed under /usr. Are you enlightened yet?
>
> Yes, but not about what you hoped. Back when I did that kind of
> thing,
> I did a better job than that. Let's see - off the top of my head,
> I've network mounted /usr (the Linux solution to this problem), /opt
> (the Solaris solution), and used rdist, rsync and perforce to do the
> distribution.
>
> The bottom line is that taking the name people have standardized on
> for installing *local* packages and installing system-provided
> packages there is a bad thing(TM). None of the solutions I used
> suffered from that flaw.
Umm, if the name /usr/local disturbs you greatly, then set PREFIX in
/etc/make.conf to whatever name you do like (/usr/global), etc. Also,
ports are not system-provided packages, they are 3rd party software. I
also don't see how installing 3rd party software directly under /usr so
that it is mixed up with system-provided software (what is in /usr that
comes with OS, i.e. not 3rd party software) is easier to administer.
Then you are having to distribute a lot more and increasing your
network load, espeically your NFS load. To each his own I suppose.
Personally, I think sticking everything under the sun in /usr/bin is
not organized.
> <mike
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