pkg MANIFEST documentation

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:47:31PM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 14/03/13 7:31pm, Chris Rees wrote:
> > Packages never supported PREFIX.  You can change PREFIX in ports, at compile time, but once the compilation is done, changing PREFIX will break many compiled binaries.
> 
> OK, good to know thanks. So this change from relative tar packaging (pkg_) to absolute paths (pkgng) is a way of ensuring that packages are never portable?
> 
> I still don't understand the "prefix" attribute in MANIFEST. I guess it should be removed?

The prefix attribute is mostly informative and is to be used in scripts, for
compatibility.

regards,
Bapt
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