Re: CVS commit: othersrc/bootstrap-pkgsrc

[Alistair Crooks <agc%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:20:31AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Module Name:  othersrc
> Committed By: hubertf
> Date:         Sun Nov 24 02:20:31 UTC 2002
> 
> Modified Files:
>       othersrc/bootstrap-pkgsrc: bootstrap
> 
> Log Message:
> make help a bit clearer
> it's really confusing that we support several different switches to
> do exactly the same thing XXX

Actually, I found it useful when developing this utility. And it's documented,
and hardly confusing:

[8:40:47] agc@sys1 /usr/othersrc/bootstrap-pkgsrc 45 > cat README
To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following
as root:

        ./bootstrap [--prefix=${LOCALBASE}] [--localbase=${LOCALBASE}] 
[--pkgdbdir=${PKG_DBDIR}] [--pkgsrcdir=${PKGSRCDIR}]

The defaults for the arguments are as follows:

        --prefix or --localbase         /usr/pkg
        --pkgdbdir                      /var/db/pkg
        --pkgsrcdir                     /usr/pkgsrc

It is perfectly acceptable to place ${PKG_DBDIR} under ${LOCALBASE}

Make sure that you have a working C compiler and make(1) binary in
your path.

We'd be very interested in hearing of any successes or failures on
"unknown" (to us) systems.
[8:40:51] agc@sys1 /usr/othersrc/bootstrap-pkgsrc 46 >

Regards,
Alistair