In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Balmer writes: > > This is OpenBSD. We install all configuration files below /etc. Other > operating systems may use different locations, but here we use /etc.
Indeed, I have just found this behaviour explained on section 15 of the OpenBSD FAQ. I was writing an answer to my own post as soon as I read it but you were faster. Certainly it is an unexpected behaviour as I have read sometimes that "the base system and the ports are very different things". I suppose that configuration files were on a different directory, as in NetBSD. As both NetBSD and OpenBSD are using the same tools to manage ports/packages, and I am certainly accustomed to /usr/pkg/etc on NetBSD, I supposed it was an error on these packages. > > Did I some mistake when installing these applications? > > The only mistake you made was not to read the documentation before > posting. As I said, it is a certainly unusual behaviour and it is not described on the pkg_* manual pages (though!). As I did not find a comment on this behaviour on pkg_add(1), but there are detailed notes on the use of /usr/ports, /usr/local, /var/db/pkg and so on I supposed I did a mistake installing the packages. I read a lot of documentation on the utilities for managing packages on NetBSD, where /usr/pkg/etc is used. I expected the same behaviour on OpenBSD. I just asked because this behaviour is not documented on the man pages and it is certainly different to the way pkg_* works on NetBSD (where there is a different /etc for the packages). Best wishes, Igor.
