Subject: Re: Changing Solaris LOCALBASE from /usr/local to /usr/pkg
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/17/2001 10:39:33
Looks good to me - not tested here, though.
Thanks,
Al
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:06:31PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> So far the best(?) I have for this is included below. Any objections,
> or suggestions on how to better handle it?
>
> --- bsd.prefs.mk 2001/07/10 16:37:13 1.53
> +++ bsd.prefs.mk 2001/07/16 20:06:51
> @@ -274,7 +274,19 @@
> .if (${OPSYS} == "NetBSD")
> PKG_TOOLS_BIN?= /usr/sbin
> .elif (${OPSYS} == "SunOS")
> -LOCALBASE?= ${DESTDIR}/usr/local
> +# Migration aid for old /usr/local LOCALBASE on Solaris
> +.if !defined(LOCALBASE) && exists(${DESTDIR}/usr/local/libexec/cgi-bin) && \
> + !exists(${DESTDIR}/usr/pkg/libexec/cgi-bin)
> +.BEGIN:
> + @echo "On Solaris and /usr/local/libexec/cgi-bin found:"
> + @echo "- If you have an existing pkgsrc installation & wish to continue"
> + @echo " using /usr/local, append LOCALBASE=/usr/local to /etc/mk.conf."
> + @echo "- Otherwise set LOCALBASE=/usr/pkg in your environment for the"
> + @echo " first package install.
> + @false
> +.endif
> +# end of migration aid
> +LOCALBASE?= ${DESTDIR}/usr/pkg
> .if !defined(ZOULARISBASE)
> ZOULARISBASE:= ${LOCALBASE}/bsd
> .endif
>
>
> --
> David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:45:12PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > I'd like to change the default Solaris LOCALBASE to match that
> > > of NetBSD and Linux (/usr/pkg).
> > >
> > > In order to avoid hosing any existing Solaris pkgsrc users I
> > > propose adding a check which causes pkgsrc to error out if the
> > > following four conditions are met:
> > > + Running on Solaris
> > > + LOCALBASE is not set in mk.conf or environment
> > > + /usr/local/libexec/cgi-bin is present
> > > + /usr/pkg/libexec/cgi-bin is not present
> > >
> > > New installations would automatically pick up /usr/pkg, existing
> > > users who have not set LOCALBASE and who want to keep /usr/local
> > > would need to add it to their mk.conf
> > >
> > > If there are no objections I'll go ahead with this later this
> > > week.
> >
> > No objection from me - it has been a matter of extreme shame to me
> > that I used /usr/local for the default Solaris LOCALBASE setting.
> > It made sense at the time, with the infrastructure I was using, but
> > should have been changed before the Solaris changes hit our tree.
> >
> > Sorry,
> > Alistair (who will re-surface RSN)
> >
> >