portmaster and environ from pkg_install tools (was: i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster)

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 6 23:34:54 UTC 2010


On 08/06/2010 16:01, Andres Perera wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 08/06/2010 15:03, Adam Vande More wrote:
>>
>>> While your in the mood for for taking portmaster suggestions,
>>
>> I am always in the mood for taking suggestions. :)
>>
> 
> On that note, I suggest that portmaster should fallback on PKG_PATH,
> which is explained in pkg_add(1), if LOCAL_PACKAGEDIR isn't defined.

It uses PACKAGES if LOCAL_PACKAGEDIR is not defined, which is a
throwback to the days before package installation support because it
uses that location for other things too.


Doug

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