ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in
pkg_add(1)
Dieter BSD
dieterbsd at engineer.com
Tue Jul 19 18:41:36 UTC 2011
> 1. Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, for
> example?
Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the
existing version.
There are bound to be other reasons.
Compiling the port rather than installing a package isn't always
a solution. Many ports are incredibly difficult to get compiled.
PREFIX needs to be an install time variable, not compile time.
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