On Jun 1, 2012, at 12:24, Craig Treleaven wrote: > At 12:16 PM -0500 6/1/12, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jun 1, 2012, at 09:35, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> >>>> I guess the takeaway is to warn potential dmg users: "If you use MacPorts >>>> now, or think you might in the future, use it instead of a dmg to install >>>> this software". >>> >>> Yes--unless you build those dmgs with a different prefix :-) >> >> Which, again, you absolutely should do. Please do not distribute disk images >> that install things into /opt/local, or you may earn yourself a place on our >> ProblemHotlist: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xmlwf > > It almost sounds like a badge of honour! ;) Is the prefix one of those > things that can be overriden on the command line? Something like 'sudo port > mdmg myport prefix=/opt/myport'?
No, it can only be changed at the time that you initially install MacPorts, by passing the --prefix argument to the ./configure script when you build MacPorts from source. You can however easily have any number of separate MacPorts installations in separate prefixes, if you plan to do a lot of packaging and want to keep that separate from your normal MacPorts prefix. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
