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From: David O'Brien <deobrien@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where to put packages *not* from FreeBSD ?
Date: 31 Dec 1996 20:10:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> wrote:
: I was wondering where one should put packages that were neithere a part
: of the FreeBSD distribution, nor obtained through the ports mechnaism.
: I am concernde about what will happen to these packages when I upgrade
: FreeBSD.
I truely side with you. I really, really wish FreeBSD ports/packages
were installed in /usr/pkg or /opt. But it is way too late to change
this now.
I concider /usr/local to be a "trash" fs. I don't back it up because I
can always get the files back (because of the excelent FBSD ports
collection). On every RELEASE upgrade (and some SNAPS) I do, I blow
/usr (along with /usr/local) away.
So I have a partition with my home dirs on it that *NEVER* gets newfs'ed.
I created a directory there named "/home/treats/{bin,man,share,lib}". I
then "ln -s /home/treats /usr/treats" after every upgrade. This means
that I have to hack the Makefile (and sometimes code) when I install
something locally not part of the FreeBSD ports collection. But with the
large size of the collection, this doesn't happen often (except for
scripts). When do install a package in /usr/treats, I then often make a
FreeBSD port of it and submit it. So far my scheme has worked fine for
over a year and 1/2.
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-- David (deobrien@ucdavis.edu)