On 14/03/13 7:31pm, Chris Rees wrote:
Packages never supported PREFIX. You can change PREFIX in ports, at compile time, but once the compilation is done, changing PREFIX will break many compiled binaries.
OK, good to know thanks. So this change from relative tar packaging (pkg_) to absolute paths (pkgng) is a way of ensuring that packages are never portable? I still don't understand the "prefix" attribute in MANIFEST. I guess it should be removed? Ari -- --------------------------> Aristedes Maniatis ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
