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26th June 2008
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setting $PKGDIR screws up port installations
I just switched my laptop from PC-BSD 1.5.1.x to FreeBSD 7.0-Release and I noticed something odd.
I setenv PKGDIR to a safe spot and went about installing packages and ports through a shell script but, when it tried to install some apps via ports with PKGDIR set, they would barf pkg-descr not found style messages. Doing it by hand using makes -i/-k switches things worked (but probably not smart), things also worked perfectly *normal* when the PKGDIR environment variable was not set when I went to install individual ports. I found this kinda odd because I don't recall the ports(7) manual saying it honoured PKGDIR. However, /usr/ports/*.mk has a concept of ${PKGDIR}/pkg-* when looking for files such as pkg-descr, pkg-plist, and such. Grr !
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