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

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:41:31 +0000, Dieter BSD wrote:
>> 1.  Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, 
>> for
>> example?
>
> Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
>

Corrupting the pkgdb there is a chroot option for that

> Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the
> existing version.
>

it will mess up the database either

> 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.

PREFIX at install time is just broken and can't be anything else than 
broken, because lot's of path given a build time configuration path for 
example, etc.

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