Re: get rid of LOCALBASE

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 12/4/20 11:03 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2020-12-04 at 16:46 GMT, Roland Illig wrote:
>
> > On 03.12.2020 22:11, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > > Under pkgsrc, help/directories.help seems to indicate the same logic as
> > > FreeBSD ports, but there does not appear to be an alternative to
> > > LOCALBASE underlying PREFIX, and PREFIX is not supposed to be overridden
> > > (not the case in FreeBSD ports, PREFIX is explicitly set in rare cases):
> > >
> > > # PREFIX
> > > #    This is the directory where the package should install its
> > > #    files. This is usually LOCALBASE.
> > > #
> > > #    Tags: read-only, system-defined, non-overridable, etc.
> > > #
> > > #    See also:
> > > #        LOCALBASE.
> > > #
> > >
> > > # LOCALBASE
> > > #    This is the directory where all packages are usually installed.
> > > #    It is set by the user, and packages must not modify it.
> > > #
> > >
> > > Which leaves the question of specifically when the two might actually
> > > differ.
> > There is a single package where they differ.  That package is
> > shells/standalone-tcsh, and it is excluded by all bulk builds exactly
> > because it overrides PREFIX to be "/".  No other package is allowed to
> > do this though.
> And security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl </pedant>
Those indeed seem to be the only two:

Linux centosdev.uits  bacon ~ 585: (pkgsrc): pkg-grep ^PREFIX=
security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl/Makefile:PREFIX=            /
shells/standalone-tcsh/Makefile:PREFIX=            /
Linux centosdev.uits  bacon ~ 586: (pkgsrc):