On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:47:31PM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > On 14/03/13 7:31pm, Chris Rees wrote: > > Packages never supported PREFIX. You can change PREFIX in ports, at > > compile time, but once the compilation is done, changing PREFIX will break > > many compiled binaries. > > OK, good to know thanks. So this change from relative tar packaging (pkg_) to > absolute paths (pkgng) is a way of ensuring that packages are never portable? > > I still don't understand the "prefix" attribute in MANIFEST. I guess it > should be removed?
The prefix attribute is mostly informative and is to be used in scripts, for compatibility. regards, Bapt
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