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authorXi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>2023-11-08 17:27:10 +0800
committerXi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>2023-11-08 17:30:59 +0800
commitd11686c6f0d1ef2d7c739e06ef151155b19e3469 (patch)
treee46d53997b8687a730c95165b40c6e99946503b7
parent93311f4abb72c8e053970ff6122d90c75ce5a3d7 (diff)
pkgmgt: Update the desc for "separate directories"
There seems some guy overusing this method so we should add more caveats. - Use /opt/foo-x.y instead of /usr/pkg/foo-x.y. /opt/foo-x.y is used in BLFS for Rustc, Qt5, etc. and /usr/pkg is not FHS-compliant. - Use /etc/ld.so.conf and LDFLAGS instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Relying on LD_LIBRARY_PATH is generally a bad idea, and we also don't use it in BLFS for /opt packages. - Discourage this method for general use, mention it may not work for vital packages like Glibc.
-rw-r--r--chapter08/pkgmgt.xml26
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/pkgmgt.xml b/chapter08/pkgmgt.xml
index 794fe1259..185538796 100644
--- a/chapter08/pkgmgt.xml
+++ b/chapter08/pkgmgt.xml
@@ -196,19 +196,29 @@
<para>This is a simplistic package management technique that does not need a
special program to manage the packages. Each package is installed in a
separate directory. For example, package foo-1.1 is installed in
- <filename class='directory'>/usr/pkg/foo-1.1</filename>
- and a symlink is made from <filename>/usr/pkg/foo</filename> to
- <filename class='directory'>/usr/pkg/foo-1.1</filename>. When
+ <filename class='directory'>/opt/foo-1.1</filename>
+ and a symlink is made from <filename>/opt/foo</filename> to
+ <filename class='directory'>/opt/foo-1.1</filename>. When
a new version foo-1.2 comes along, it is installed in
- <filename class='directory'>/usr/pkg/foo-1.2</filename> and the previous
+ <filename class='directory'>/opt/foo-1.2</filename> and the previous
symlink is replaced by a symlink to the new version.</para>
<para>Environment variables such as <envar>PATH</envar>,
- <envar>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</envar>, <envar>MANPATH</envar>,
- <envar>INFOPATH</envar> and <envar>CPPFLAGS</envar> need to be expanded to
- include <filename>/usr/pkg/foo</filename>. If you install more than a few packages,
- this scheme becomes unmanageable.</para>
+ <envar>MANPATH</envar>, <envar>INFOPATH</envar>,
+ <envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar>, <envar>CPPFLAGS</envar>,
+ <envar>LDFLAGS</envar>, and the configuration file
+ <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> may need to be expanded to
+ include the corresponding subdirectories in
+ <filename class='directory'>/opt/foo-x.y</filename>.</para>
+ <para>
+ This scheme is used by the BLFS book to install some very large
+ packages to make it easier to upgrade them. If you install more
+ than a few packages, this scheme becomes unmanageable. And some
+ packages (for example Linux API headers and Glibc) may not work well
+ with this scheme.
+ <emphasis role='bold'>Never use this scheme system-wide.</emphasis>
+ </para>
</sect3>
<sect3>