setting up a ports infrastructure outside of /usr/ports

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:11:22AM +0200, Oliver Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to ports some programs but before I will start, I would 
> like to have a separate directory for it. So so my question is:
> 
> Is it possible:
> 
> 1. to have the ports directory in my home directory? I
>     think yes.
> 
> 2. to build and to install a port as normal user to
>    a via PREFIX specified directory?
> 
> 3. to use a different pkgdb directory than /var/db/pkg for
>    the ports build in this manner?

Sure.  That's all possible.  When I'm working on ports I just stick
the port directory in my home dir and set up a bunch of environment
variables so I don't trample over the official /var/db/pkg (or try to
-- I work on the development stuff under my own UID, not root).

I generally just source this into my tcsh session:

    # -*- csh -*-
    #
    # Set up environment for testing ports
    
    setenv WRKDIRPREFIX	${HOME}/tmp/ports
    setenv PKG_DBDIR	${HOME}/tmp/db/pkgs
    setenv PORT_DBDIR	${HOME}/tmp/db/ports
    setenv PREFIX		${HOME}/tmp/local
    setenv INSTALL_AS_USER	yes
    setenv NOCLEANDEPENDS	yes
    
    unsetenv JAVA_HOME

Not that this still expects bsd.port.mk and all of the makefiles to
live in /usr/ports/Mk -- as well as any dependency ports.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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