Re: PREFIX and /etc

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Devin Reade <gdr@gno.org> wrote:

> I have a port that needs to put files into /etc and /sbin (in fact,
> the only files that go into /usr/local are the man pages).

Please explain why it needs to do this.

> Looking through bsd.port.mk, it appears that the only way to do this without
> causing tar errors during the 'make package' stage is to set PREFIX
> to "/" in the port Makefile.

Yes.  Installing symlinks from pkg/INSTALL may or may not suffice, too.

> Is this the normal way to do things,

No, because dumping ports stuff into /sbin is not normal.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de