On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:25:34PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> How important is the pkgsrc  pathname btw? Can I have my pkgsrc at some
> other location like say /mnt/free/pkgsrc (/mnt/free being a partition I
> have with lots of free space) and things will still work fine right?

pkgsrc uses only relative pathnames internally (like ../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk),
so you can store the three wherever you like.  Personally I always have a
separate /cvs filesystem (often on LFS) for /cvs/pkgsrc, /cvs/src, ... 

	Geert