New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > Personally, I'd still like LOCALBASE to move out of /usr/local. Maybe
> > > it's time to reconsider that.
> > Not gonna happen as a default, but you can change it on your systems
> > if you like.
> 
> Not if you want to use pre-built packages.  You made sure of that when
> you decided (against my objections) to include .la files in packages.

I have a suspicion you're never going to let that go, but it's not
relevant here anyway.  Binaries have been hardcoding their build
location (e.g. /usr/local) since the dawn of time.  The best you can
do is to binary edit everything to a string of the same length, and
that works for .la files too.

Kris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/attachments/20070511/e7a45068/attachment.pgp