Closed kflu closed 3 years ago
Binary package sets are hardcoded to their chosen prefix, but you can build your own packages easily. Grab a copy of pkgsrc, then:
cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
./bootstrap --unprivileged --prefix=$HOME/pkg
Then build your chosen packages as normal, e.g.:
cd pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils
bmake install
More information available in the pkgsrc guide.
Thanks. But I want to use Joyent's pre-built packages via pkgin
. I don't want to build from source myself, since that's very slow.
Yeh that's not possible, the prefix will be hardcoded into a huge number of places and there's no way to change that.
Looks like joyent pkgsrc bootstrap installs to the default location
/usr/pkg
. Is there a way to customize the prefix, say, to non-previleged directory like$HOME/pkg
?This is what I was talking about - in e.g., https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-linux/, it says
If I change to
-c $HOME/pkg
, then when I dopkgin list
, it will complain "cannot find /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin". So it apparently is "hard coded".