Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 17, 2006, 16:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605170919290.10823@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <f3d7535d0605170808l21d9f6d0gff1afaa10db17af9@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Stefan Pfetzing wrote:

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> Ok, if I would do so, my prefix would be /usr/pkg, and the bindir would be
> /usr/pkg/bin. So I would need to have an xargs and so on symlink in
> /usr/pkg/bin.
> But this is simply not acceptable, because it breaks other NetBSD
> pkgsrc scripts.

DON'T USE /usr/pkg then.

Use /usr/pkg/git-core/share/ or something that is normally not on your path.

And then install _just_ the "git" binary in /usr/pkg/bin.

That must be allowable by whatever solaris packaging rules: it's not like other projects don't have their own internal library files.

Then you install the GNU symlinks under that same

	/usr/pkg/git-core/share/bin

and you're all set. The only binary you can _see_ is "git", and when that executes any scripts or other git binaries, it will set up the path to include that magic hidden directory.

> Besides that, installing git to a different location is not an option
> for me, because I want to have git packaged by pkgsrc.

Now, I'm told pkgsrc is horrible, but it can't be so horrid as to not allow private directories?

		Linus