Re: spreculative: /bin2 /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?
On 1 March 2010 17:18, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: Just wondering if anyone cares to share their thoughts about this. There are a few ports that I would love to see included in the base tree such as OpenLDAP and the Openbsd pdksh or bash. But It hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So I was thinking about the pkg infrastructure. The location of the pkg file database I believe can be specified. And the installation directories I believe can also be specified. Other than that paths would have to be changed for binaries and libraries and probably share and other installation points. This should allow separate package trees meaning that when I delete and reinstall my main ports these programs will not be affected and the package database info for these will not be screwed up. Is it possible and if it is has anyone implemented it on their own systems? Or have people simply taken to installing ports in the main directories? Chris Why does it make a difference with the prefix on where you put them? You shouldn't manually delete ports, anyway. You should deinstall them using the port... Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: spreculative: /bin2 /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?
On 03/02/10 11:35, Chris Rees wrote: snip Why does it make a difference with the prefix on where you put them? You shouldn't manually delete ports, anyway. You should deinstall them using the port... Chris I think he's talking about how with Debian and apt you can specify different repositories to install from without messing up the base system. My problem with that is that dependency resolution quickly breaks if you have one of the repositories out of sync with the others. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
spreculative: /bin2 /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?
Just wondering if anyone cares to share their thoughts about this. There are a few ports that I would love to see included in the base tree such as OpenLDAP and the Openbsd pdksh or bash. But It hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So I was thinking about the pkg infrastructure. The location of the pkg file database I believe can be specified. And the installation directories I believe can also be specified. Other than that paths would have to be changed for binaries and libraries and probably share and other installation points. This should allow separate package trees meaning that when I delete and reinstall my main ports these programs will not be affected and the package database info for these will not be screwed up. Is it possible and if it is has anyone implemented it on their own systems? Or have people simply taken to installing ports in the main directories? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
