Subject: Re: tangent (was Re: upgrading to 1.4.2)
To: Tom Tarka <tommy@mp3.com>
From: Erik Huizing <huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/21/2000 16:34:36
As far as I can remember, here's how thing work:
One of the things that distinguishes most forms of unix is how/where you
install your software. Essentially, there's two types of Unix, System V,
and BSD. Most types borrow aspects from both types.
On some flavours, installed software goes in /usr/local/. Also, the
locations of certain programs varries as well. Some flavours (IRIX for eg)
has its 'core BSD' programs in /usr/ucb
In NetBSD, installed software goes in /usr/pkg
Erik Huizing 4th year Computer Science
huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Office: MS 142 Ph: 220-5768
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~huizing
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Tom Tarka wrote:
> Lloyd I Freese Jr wrote:
>
> > I'm fairly new to NetBSD so forgive me if these are stupid questions.
> >
> > 1- I'm thinking of upgrading to 1.4.2. Will I need to
> > reinstall/rebuild the programs in /usr/pkg or will they still run
> > okay?
>
> out of curiousity...is there a reason things get installed in /usr/pkg?
> Is this a standard BSD-ism...or...
>
> For some reason I thought packages would be installed somewhere
> else...
>
> -t
>
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