Thanks, that's clear enough. Appreciated. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > * On 2015-08-19 at 18:28 BST, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > > > Is it safe to move $LOCALBASE to a new location? > > No. > > > I'm using pkgsrc on Darwin with LOCALBASE=/opt but I'd like to move this > > to /opt/pkg (because reasons). Will I have to recompile everything from > > scratch (i.e. uninstall everything, rm -rf /opt, and then re-run pkgsrc > > bootstrap and start to work my way through the packages I need), or is > > it enough to mv /opt/* to /opt/pkg ? > > Once you have chosen a prefix then it is hardcoded into many many > locations. If you later want to change the prefix then the only > option is to rebuild everything, in your case for /opt/pkg. > > For what it's worth, our OSX packages[0] now use /opt/pkg as their > default prefix, so you could just re-use our bootstrap and packages. > > Cheers, > > [0]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/ > > -- > Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com > -- :: Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, Bioinformatics Developer, BILS, :: Uppsala University, Sweden ::---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: My other car is a cdr.
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