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

[Adrian Chadd]

Unless say, you're doing package installation outside of a
chroot/jail, to populate something inside a chroot/jail before you
start said chroot/jail.



Adrian

On 17 July 2011 00:13, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 16 Jul 2011 17:04, "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen at missouri.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/16/2011 10:53 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16 Jul 2011 16:38, "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen at missouri.edu
>>> <mailto:stephen at missouri.edu>> wrote:
>>>  > For example, suppose the C source code contains something like:
>>>  > char applications_dir = "/usr/local/share/applications";
>>>  > and this is filled in by the ./configure script.
>>>  >
>>>  > How is that handled?
>>>  >
>>>
>>> It's not.
>>>
>>> Remember what a package is, literally the files from the plist tarred
>>> with some magic +FILEs and the pkg-*install files- if paths are
>>> hardcoded in objects that's how it'll be installed.
>>
>>
>> What if some of the installation programs are binaries, and "/usr/local"
> is hard coded into installation binaries or scripts provided by the software
> itself.
>
> Sorry, poor wording on my part.
>
> If it was compiled as prefix=/usr/local, that's how it'll be installed,
> regardless of your -p argument.
>
> Chris
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