"Installing older port" installs to "./", not to "/"

Michael O'Brien Michael.T.OBrien at notes.aero.org
Thu Nov 3 17:09:53 PDT 2011


Sorry, ignore this one, pilot error.

Michael O'Brien

On Nov 3, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Michael O'Brien wrote:

> 	I just copied the Portfile for an older version of a port to a local directory, and did "port install" as root, only to find that the port was installed with a value of "destroot=." rather than "destroot=/".  It put it in a tree starting at the directory with the portfile in it.  Am I going to have to put the Portfile into "/" to get it to install in the right place?  What's going on here?
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