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| author | hubertf <hubertf@pkgsrc.org> | 2001-01-06 03:10:02 +0000 |
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| committer | hubertf <hubertf@pkgsrc.org> | 2001-01-06 03:10:02 +0000 |
| commit | e5f918615f0909181e72883af3ce74c330e0bd51 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ed4d32ce414ee4f9d3b9c5e3c3a05c366927bc4 /Packages.txt | |
| parent | c773fdc575474faaa77448f2e89ba591f7dab706 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-e5f918615f0909181e72883af3ce74c330e0bd51.tar.gz | |
Make it clear that it's a bad idea to try having multiple (different)
settings for LOCALBASE etc., noted by Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Packages.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Packages.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Packages.txt b/Packages.txt index 701dcab4527..f4b5e2b8e6a 100644 --- a/Packages.txt +++ b/Packages.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.132 2001/01/04 15:10:17 agc Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.133 2001/01/06 03:10:02 hubertf Exp $ ########################################################################### ========================== @@ -259,6 +259,15 @@ manually, you can use the the "bin-install" target, which will install a binary package - if available - via pkg_add, and do a "make package" else. +A final word of warning: If you setup a system that has a non-standard +setting for LOCALBASE (or X11BASE, for that matter), be sure to set that +before any packages are installed, as you can not use several directories +for the same purpose. Doing so will result in pkgsrc not being able to +properly detect your installed packages, and fail miserably. Note also that +precompiled binary packages are usually built with the default LOCALBASE of +/usr/pkg, and that you should *not* install any if you use a non-standard +LOCALBASE. + 3 Making precompiled packages ============================= |