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trossachs
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 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject: [CLOSED] after 'emerge' what default file locations? |
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Curious. If I emerge lets say mysql or mod_php, where do these packages get installed? I would prefer for all packages from now on to default to /usr/local, can this be done? Because I don't see anywhere to specify a '--prefix=/'
After the long Redhat years, I was hoping to have more control over where these things end up. Can I even create a directory called 'progs' and bung them in all there? thx.
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boroshan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: hmmm... tricky. |
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hmmm... a quick investigation suggests you may be out of luck on this one. the ebuilds seem to have the prefix hard coded into them. This comes from sys-apps/which:
| Code: | src_compile() {
./configure --prefix=/Usr || die
make || die
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I suppose a lot of the porblem is that the --prefix is only a rough consensus - not every linux app respects it, or even uses ./configure for that matter.
You ight try raising this as a bug on bugzilla - be easy enough to add a DEFAULT_PREFIX or PREFIX_OVERRIDE macro in make.conf . Failing that, you could copy key apps onto PORTAGE_OVERLAY and edit the prefix line there - a pain, but it'd work.
That said - why do you want to put your apps in /usr/local? gentoo sticks apps in /usr because they are part of the distro and supported as such, whereas most hand compiled apps default into /usr/local because they don't expect to be part of the supported distro and by installing into /usr/local it makes them easier to remove if things go pear shaped. Even then, portage's uninstall is good enough that unmerging appliations rarely gives problems. Just a thought....
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Just fancied a change having always had to contend with RH putting programs in so many different places. Thought with Gentoo I would have more control. No worries. |
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