ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1)

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

The following reply was made to PR ports/158179; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com,
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Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option
 in pkg_add(1)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:43:42 -0500

 I was looking through the source code of pkg_add.  Personally I don't 
 see how the "-P" or "-p" option could be made to work with pkg_add. 
 Many of the installation commands involve scripts which have ${PREFIX} 
 hard coded into them.  ${PREFIX} is often hard coded when trhe package 
 is created by the port.  In my opinion, the options "-p" and "-P" should 
 be removed from pkg_add.
 
 Either that, or provide the port a way to access "@cwd" in any scripts 
 it installs.  But this would require a major overhaul of the whole ports 
 system, and probably much of the software it installs as well.
 
 Am I missing something?
 
 Stephen