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: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at engineer.com>
Cc: "bug-followup at freebsd.org" <bug-followup at freebsd.org>,
        "freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com" <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com>,
        "freebsd at fokker.solgatos.com" <freebsd at fokker.solgatos.com>,
        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option
 in pkg_add(1)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:56:28 -0500

 On 07/19/2011 01:41 PM, Dieter BSD wrote:
 >> 1.  Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, for
 >> example?
 >
 > Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
 >
 > Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the
 > existing version.
 
 I don't see how these two goals are compatible.  Any programs installed 
 for the purpose of a chroot/jail will have to point to $PREFIX, whereas 
 any programs installed for the purpose of testing it elsewhere will 
 either have to point to $PREFIX (if the stuff it is pointing to was not 
 installed by the current package and the "-p" option was invoked), or to 
 $PKG_PREFIX (if the stuff it is pointing to was installed by the current 
 package or the "-P" option was invoked).