Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Stefan Pfetzing wrote:

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