Re: packages going to the wrong place?

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On May 18, 2011, at 3:06 36PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

>> I'm trying to reinstall all of my packages, but the installations
>> seems to be going to the wrong place.  Here's a typical line from
>> doing a 'make update' in pkgtools/pkg_install:
> 
>>      /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel pkg_info 
>> /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_info
> 
> Recently DESTDIR support was enabled by default.
> This is why files are installed to .destdir directory.
> 
> DESTDIR goal:
> First, binary package is created safely without changing your /.
> Second, package is installed using newly created binary.
> 
So I *must* put DESTDIR=/usr/pkg or some such in mk.conf?


                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb