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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Where to put packages *not* from FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <stanbE36GJD.2GL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) References: <stanbE2z02s.BIK@netcom.com> <59rvb3$1nm@klemm.gtn.com> <5a4t9e$5b2@nr1.vancouver.istar.net> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:38:01 GMT Lines: 26 Sender: stanb@netcom23.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33086 >A thousand hacks they have, but no make world, debian linux is the only >upgrade in place linux and it is done with sophisticated dependancy >databases and package managers....( more to go wrong ) >funny how clean make world is....(no dependacy problems, databases, >special packing and unpacking software, etc..) This discussion has drifte far wide of the original question (which I posted) and I still have not seenan answer to the original question, so let me try again. Since FreeBSD puts things in .usr/loal, where should I putpackages that I wish to aintain *seperatly* from FreebSD. That is without any risk that any upgrading of FreeBSD (Binary or sourc via make worl) will mess with it? Also what determines if FreeBSD puts the package in /usr/local (as opposed to say /bin or /usr/bin)? Thanks. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.