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

[Stefan Bethke]

The following reply was made to PR ports/158179; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de>
To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
 freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com,
 current at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:26:46 +0200

 Am 16.07.2011 um 04:43 schrieb Stephen Montgomery-Smith:
 
 > I was looking through the source code of pkg_add.  Personally I don't =
 see how the "-P" or "-p" option could be made to work with pkg_add. Many =
 of the installation commands involve scripts which have ${PREFIX} hard =
 coded into them.  ${PREFIX} is often hard coded when trhe package is =
 created by the port.  In my opinion, the options "-p" and "-P" should be =
 removed from pkg_add.
 >=20
 > Either that, or provide the port a way to access "@cwd" in any scripts =
 it installs.  But this would require a major overhaul of the whole ports =
 system, and probably much of the software it installs as well.
 >=20
 > Am I missing something?
 
 Yes.  Not honoring the prefix is a bug in the port.  If you do need to =
 do prefix-specific things during install, use pkg-install, see =
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/pkg-install.html
 
 I suspect that many ports are not well tested outside of "/usr/local", =
 but the infrastructure is there and available.
 
 
 Stefan
 
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