using an alternate install prefix

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 11:23:25PM -0700, Adam Glass wrote:
> (Background: I'm a NetBSD user, experimenting a bit with FreeBSD on
> one of my systems.)
> 
> One of the things that I really like about NetBSD's "pkgsrc"
> (analagous to the ports collection) is that it installs its packages
> into /usr/pkg.  This is nice because it keeps files managed/created by
> the packaging system separate from files managed/created "by hand" by
> the local administrator.  I'd like to get this same behavior out of
> FreeBSD's ports collection, if possible.  Specifically, I'd like to
> have ports install things into a path other than /usr/local.
> 
> One of my friends suggested that I add "LOCALBASE=/usr/pkg" to
> /etc/make.conf.  Will this be sufficient?  Are there any other
> ramifications to this that I should be aware of?

No, you need to set PREFIX as well.  Some ports do not respect PREFIX,
but that's a bug that should be reported via send-pr.
 
Kris
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